Let them stay for good
This is the only home they know. They grew up here and built their lives in our communities after surviving offshore detention. It's time to let them stay, for good.
Email your MP“Australia is the only home we know. We have rebuilt our lives, working, paying taxes and contributing to the community.”
Ten years ago, Australians took to the streets to demand that no child be sent back to offshore detention and it worked. Now these young adults and their families have rebuilt their lives in Australia, all while surviving on temporary visas. It’s time to let them stay for good.
Around 700 people remain in Australia who were transferred to Nauru and Papua New Guinea under Australia’s brutal offshore processing regime and were later brought to Australia for urgent medical treatment.
They remain stuck on short-term exit visas with no pathway to permanency, despite having nowhere else to go.
“We are part of Australia in every way, except on paper.”
Despite all they have been through, they are here and contributing to the Australian community, paying taxes and building their lives. It's time to let them stay for good.
The Government has shown a willingness to support people in similar situations to be granted permanent protection on humanitarian grounds, including the Iranian women’s soccer team.
Now, with nowhere else to go, the government must intervene to guarantee permanency to this community that has suffered so much harm at the hands of Australia’s brutal offshore detention regime.
If we can show our political representatives that these 700 people are part of our community and that the community is behind them, they are more likely to finally act to end this injustice. Can you write to your MP today, to demand they let them stay for good?
Listen to the 'Out of Sight, Out of Mind' podcast
For more than a decade, the Australian Government’s offshore detention system was designed to keep people out of sight.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind is a new podcast series that brings their stories back into view.
Over the four part series, you’ll hear directly from the people who were forced to survive offshore detention on Naoero (formerly Nauru), alongside people who witnessed the system firsthand.
Together, their stories reveal the human impact of a policy that continues to this day.