Let them stay for good

"Every experience I've had that is significant or that I remember or that actually I hold dear to me, it's here and it is Australian and I am Australian.” 

“I don't know anything else."

Ailin is 17. She grew up in Western Sydney. She plays basketball, takes her little brother to the park, and goes to the beach with her mates. She is in Year 12 this year, and is studying hard.

Ailin arrived in Australia at 3 years old, but according to the Albanese Government, she has no pathway to permanency because of an old law targeted at people who arrived by boat seeking safety. They remain stuck on short-term exit visas with no pathway to permanency, despite having nowhere else to go.

"I'm not in transit anywhere. I can't go back and I can't stay here. There's no forward or back for me at the minute like it's just like limbo." - Ailin

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.

Now these young people and their families have rebuilt their lives in Australia, all while surviving on temporary visas. 

Ailin took to national television to fight for change for herself and for the others in her situation. She needs us to back her up in telling the Albanese Government that it’s time to let them stay for good. 

Despite all they have been through, they are here part of our community, studying at school or paying taxes and building their lives. 

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?