Stay Informed

This section has been created to provide advocates and the general public access to documents and multimedia that will aid in the understanding of asylum seeker and refugee issues.

Material has been divided into the following categories. Click to take you to the relevant page.

Overseas Countries – information on countries of origin

Australia’s Responses to Refugees – articles on Australia’s decisions on refugees and asylum seekers, and their impacts

The Challenges Women Face – articles on the plight of women refugees and the challenges for women around the world

Parliamentary Committee Submissions – BMRSG’s input to various Parliamentary Committees

Other advocacy Groups – links to the websites of other groups supporting refugees

Newsletters – links to BMRSG Newsletters

All BMRSG published documents are freely available for use as resource materials in any activity that promotes understanding of asylum seekers and refugees or in assisting asylum seekers in processing their refugee claim.

BMRSG documents distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.  This means that:

1. Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
2. ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.