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Working to enable Australian communities to sponsor refugee settlement

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The problem

Globally, 65 million people are now forcibly displaced – including more than 22 million refugees. We need countries like Australia to step up and support these people.

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The solution

We know that Australians have big hearts, and welcome people from all over the globe. We’re simply asking for a system that allows that generosity to flourish, and welcomes refugees into our communities.

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How you can help

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Like many others, the Community Refugee Sponsorship Initiative (CRSI) is looking forward to happier times in the year ahead, and there is cause for cautious optimism.  We have the full attention […]

What might 2021 hold for community refugee sponsorship?

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See the presentation slides here. The Community Refugee Sponsorship Initiative (CRSI) has been advocating for the introduction of a community refugee sponsorship program in Australia, which would enable ordinary Australians to […]

Be a trailblazer for a new era of community sponsorship …

As Australia begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government is being urged to show bold leadership and introduce a new, affordable refugee community sponsorship program. The call comes […]

Refugee Week: It is time for Australia to adopt a …

Asher Hirsch, Khanh Hoang, and Anthea Vogl Originally published in Asylum Insight December 2019 Last month the world watched as Amirhossein Sahragard, a refugee from Australia’s offshore detention centre in Papua […]

Australians are asking: “Why don’t we have our own sponsorship …

New research by Anthea Vogl, Khanh Hoang and Asher Hirsch published in the Canadian journal Refuge sheds a light on the history and development of sponsorship in Australia. Australia’s Private Refugee Sponsorship Program: […]

New Research on Australia’s Private Refugee Sponsorship Program

Uniting Church WA supports a whole-of-community approach to resettling refugees The Uniting Church WA (UCA WA) calls for a compassionate and generous refugee sponsorship program; supporting the introduction of a new […]

Uniting Church WA calls for a compassionate and generous refugee …

Today the Community Refugee Sponsorship Initiative (CRSI) launched a new vision for an expanded and improved community sponsorship scheme at a community summit in Melbourne.  The CRSI vision will allow ordinary […]

Media Release: A new vision for community refugee sponsorship …

15 January 2019 SUBMISSION: AUSTRALIA SHOULD FOLLOW IN FOOTSTEPS OF CANADIAN COMMUNITY SPONSORSHIP MODEL The Community Refugee Sponsorship Initiative (CRSI) is urging the Australian Government to consider its community sponsorship model […]

Australia should follow in footsteps of Canadian Community Sponsorship Model

The Community Refugee Sponsorship Initiative celebrates the commitment to 5000 community sponsored refugee places announced by Federal Labor Leader, Bill Shorten in Adelaide.

Labor Commitment to 5000 Community Sponsorship Places Welcome

Community sponsorship was highlighted on Tom Ballard’s (satirical) Tonightly Show on the ABC! The segment highlights the amazing success of the Canadian program and asks why we in Australia are lagging […]

Community Sponsorship Features on Tonightly

On July 16, Ministers from Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Argentina, Spain and New Zealand underlined their support for community-based refugee sponsorship in advance of the 2018 United Nations General Assembly […]

A new joint statement in support of community sponsorship

Community Refugee Settlement Scheme hosts with Vietnamese refugee in Canberra (Photo from National Archives of Australia NAA A12111, 2/1980/46A/7)

A historical review of Australia's Community Refugee Settlement Scheme

Lessons from history: The Community Refugee Settlement Scheme

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How could a community refugee sponsorship program work?

How could this work? A case study.

A successful Community Refugee Sponsorship program can work in Australia

A better model for community sponsorship

Lisa Button travelled to the UK to meet with families who have taken on community sponsorship of refugees.

Why Australia needs to get serious about community refugee sponsorship

For centuries, refugees have come to Britain seeking safety and a chance to rebuild their lives. In recent years, one of the most successful ways has been through resettlement.

Community sponsorship in the UK

the Kaldor Centre hosted a presentation by Professor Audrey Macklin, Chair in Human Rights Law and Director of the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. As Australia establishes a Community Support Program that enables community sponsorship of humanitarian entrants, what can be learned from the experiences in Canada?

Podcast: how ordinary Canadians successfully sponsor refugees.

In Canada, private sponsorship of refugees has been part of the resettlement landscape since the Indochinese refugee crisis in the late 1970s and is estimated to have resettled around 280,000 refugees since that time.

Community sponsorship in Canada

Working to enable Australian communities to sponsor refugee settlement

What is community sponsorship?

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