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Priority Primary Care Centres (PPCCs)  are clinics across Victoria that are “supporting nearby hospital emergency departments by providing GP-led care for urgent but non-life-threatening conditions such as mild infections, fractures and burns… Care is available to anyone with or witho

This paper outlines a brief, sensitive screening tool with robust psychometric properties that is easy to administer at the agency of first presentation. The STAR-MH has been developed to facilitate mental health referrals for people seeking asylum and newly arrived people from refuge

This information sheet aims to provide greater clarity to health service providers about the changes to SRSS and the roles health services may be asked to play in assessing clients’ capacity to work. SRSS is the program that supports vulnerable migrants who are waiting for decisions o

The Australian Human Rights Commission has identified options for responding to flight by sea which are consistent with Australia’s international human rights obligations.

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection’s administration of health services in onshore immigration detention.

This policy paper recommends that Australia end offshore processing, boat turnbacks and the mandatory detention of people seeking asylum.

Many health professionals prepare and provide written health plans, summaries, reports, letters and referrals (hereon in ‘health information’) for asylum seekers. This information sheet aims to: give an overview about who may request these documents, explain who may have access to the

This Refugee Council of Australia report articulates the barriers to education faced by people seeking asylum and refugees on temporary visas.  The report also has a list of scholarships that people on temporary visas can access.

  The new Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID) and Refugee Health Network of Australia (RHeaNA) Recommendations for comprehensive post-arrival health assessment for people from refugee-like backgrounds have been launched.  Below is the link to the free PDF, and har

The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC)’s Refuge from our Rhetoric event in late 2015 launched research into the language used in the debate around people seeking asylum. The research, led by communications expert and researcher, Anat Shenker-Osario, asks How do we put forth a compel