Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) Updates

This statement is delivered on behalf of 109 NGOs, including humanitarian organizations with operations in countries covered by the GHO. We are witnessing unspeakable human suffering due to the...

The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) is deeply dismayed at the passage of the trio of brutal migration bills that the Albanese Government and the Opposition combined forces to ram through...

The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) is deeply alarmed by a new Bill introduced to Federal Parliament which aims to impose further restrictions on people held in Australia’s already tightly...

The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) calls on the Australian Government to re-consider the Migration Amendment Bill and for all Parliamentarians to take time to consider the far-reaching...

Today, the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) alongside 26 development, humanitarian and affiliated agencies have sent an open letter to Australian Parliamentarians seeking...

The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) is calling on the Australian Government to stick to its commitment to increase its resettlement places for Rohingya refugees, as we mark seven years since the...

The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) welcomes the bill proposed by MP Kylea Tink to limit detention of people seeking asylum to 90 days and prohibit the detention of children. The bill aligns with...

Three years ago today, the Taliban declared an ‘interim government’ in Afghanistan, following the fall of the Afghan National Security Forces and the government. As a result of Taliban rule, a major...

In Southeast Asia, over 400,000 refugees and asylum seekers face significant humanitarian challenges. This report details Australia’s strategy to enhance regional refugee protection, driven by...

The Australian Government’s failure to find solutions for more than 1000 refugees sent to offshore detention in 2013 and 2014 must prompt urgent rethinking of its offshore processing policy, the...

The ongoing situation faced by refugees and asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea (PNG) remains a pressing humanitarian crisis. In February 2024 Paul Power, CEO of the Refugee Council of Australia...

Established in 1981, the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) is the national peak body for people from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds and the organisations and individuals who work with them...

The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) has welcomed the Australian Government’s increased funding support for refugee settlement services in the 2024-25 Budget and new measures to support people...

On 28 March 2024, we wrote to the Minister for Home Affairs Clare O’Neil seeking clarity regarding the situation for people seeking refugee protection from Australia transferred to the Republic of...

People who fear persecution if forcibly returned to their country of origin are at greatest risk from new legislation introduced to Federal Parliament today, the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA)...