Members

As a small not-for-profit organisation, RCOA depends on the support of its members and donors to maintain its independent research, policy development and advocacy on refugee issues.

For more information about becoming a member of RCOA, click here.

Individual members

Individual members are Australians who want to be informed about refugee and asylum seeker issues and support the work of RCOA. We currently have over 550 individual members. A list of individual members can be found in our latest Annual Report.

Organisational members

The organisational members of RCOA are involved in many areas of refugee support, including:

• assisting refugees in countries of first asylum and when they repatriate to their homelands;
• providing settlement support to refugees in Australia;
• providing protection and legal advice to refugees and asylum seekers; and
• advocating on behalf of a particular refugee community.

RCOA currently has over 150 organisational members:

4walls Ltd (Qld)
ACCES Services Inc (Qld)
ActionAid Australia
Act for Peace (National Council of Churches in Australia)
Afghan Australian Development Organisation (Vic)
Aftercare (NSW)
Ahmadiyya Muslim Association of Australia Inc (NSW)
AMES (Adult Multicultural Education Services (Vic)
Amnesty International Australia
Anglican Diocese of Adelaide (SA)
Anglicare North Coast (NSW)
Anglicare NT Refugee and Migrant Settlement Services
Anglicare Sydney (NSW)
Anglicare WA
Arcadia University (Qld)
Armidale Sanctuary Humanitarian Settlement (NSW)
Association for Services to Torture and Trauma Survivors (ASeTTS) (WA)
Asylum Seekers Centre (NSW)
Asylum Seekers Christmas Island
Asylum Seekers Resource Centre (Vic)
Asylum Seeker Welcome Centre (Vic)
Auburn Diversity Services (NSW)
Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office
Australian Council for International Development (ACFID)
Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) - International Section
Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
Australian Karen Foundation (Vic)
Australian Karen Organisation (NSW)
Australian Lutheran World Service
Australian National Committee on Refugee Women (ANCORW)
Australian Red Cross
Australian Refugee Association (SA)
Balmain for Refugees (NSW)
Benarrawa Community Development Association (Qld)
Bhutanese Community in Australia (Vic)
B'nai B'rith Australia/New Zealand
Burmese Rohingya Community in Australia (NSW)
Canberra Refugee Support Inc (ACT)
Caritas Australia
CASE for Refugees (WA)
CatholicCare Sydney (NSW)
Catholic Immigration Office, Sydney (NSW)
Catholic Religious Australia
Centacare Tasmania
Centre for Multicultural Pastoral Care (Qld)
Centre for Multicultural Youth (Vic)
Centre for Refugee Research, University of NSW
Centrecare Inc (WA)
Coalition for Asylum Seekers Refugees and Detainees (CARAD) (WA)
Communify Queensland Ltd
Companion House (ACT)
Diversitat (Vic)
Ecumenical Migration Centre (Brotherhood of St Laurence) (Vic)
Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education (NSW)
Edmund Rice Centre, Mirrabooka (WA)
Educational Advice for Eritrean Community in Australia (EAECA) (Vic)
Executive Council of Australian Jewry
Fairfield Migrant Resource Centre (NSW)
Foundation House (Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture)
Fremantle Multicultural Centre (WA)
Friends of the Earth Australia
God's Dwelling Place Bethany City Church Inc (NSW)
Good Shepherd Mission and Justice (Vic)
Gowrie Community Services (WA)
The Hills Holroyd Parramatta Migrant Resource Centre (NSW)
Horn of Africa Relief and Development Agency (NSW)
Hotham Mission Asylum Seeker Project (Vic)
House of Welcome (NSW)
Illawarra Multicultural Services (NSW)
Immigrant Women's Speakout (NSW)
Immigration Advice and Rights Centre (NSW)
International Commission of Jurists, Australian Section
International Society for Humans Rights Australia Inc (Vic)
Jesuit Refugee Services Australia (NSW)
Jewish Aid Australia (Vic)
Josephite Community Aid (NSW)
Justice and Freedom for Ceylon Tamils (Vic)
Lao Community Advancement Cooperative (NSW)
Life Without Barriers
Liverpool Migrant Resource Centre (NSW)
Liverpool Women's Health Centre (NSW)
Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services (Vic)
Lutheran Community Care (SA)
Macarthur Diversity Services (NSW)
Melaleuca Refugee Centre (NT)
Melbourne Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office (Vic)
Mercy Family Services (Qld)
Mercy Works Inc
Metro Migrant Resource Centre (NSW)
Metropolitan Migrant Resource Centre (WA)
Migrant and Refugee Settlement Services (MARSS) (ACT)
Migrant Resource Centre (Northern Tasmania)
Migrant Resource Centre of South Australia
Migrant Resource Centre (Southern Tasmania)
Milpera State High School (Qld)
Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Justice and Peace Centre
Multicultural Development Association (Qld)
Multicultural Services Centre of WA
Multilink Community Services Inc (Qld)
Nepean Migrant Access (NSW)
New Hope Foundation (Vic)
New Life Christian Fellowship Narrabri (NSW)
North Yarra Community Health (Vic)
Northern Settlement Services (NSW)
NSW Community Relations Commission
NSW Council for Civil Liberties
NSW Refugee Health Service
NSW Teachers Federation
Oromia Support Group in Australia (Vic)
Oromo Relief Association Australia (Vic)
Oxfam Australia
Pax Christi Australia (NSW) Inc
Pratt Family Foundation (Vic)
ProEmpowerment International
Queanbeyan Multilingual Centre (NSW)
Queensland African Communities Council (QACC)
Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma (QPASTT)
Red Cross Australia
Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS) (NSW)
Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre (RILC) (Vic)
Refugee and Immigration Legal Service (RAILS) (Qld)
Refugee Claimants Support Service (Qld)
Refugee Health Queensland
Romero Centre (Qld)
Salvation Army
Sanctuary Australia Foundation
Save the Children Australia
SCALES Community Legal Centre (WA)
Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS) (NSW)
Settlement Services International (NSW)
Sisters of Charity
The Smith Family Community Settlement Service (NSW)
Social Justice Commission, Diocese of Toowoomba (Qld)
Somali Australian Development Organisation (Qld)
South Australian Refugee Health Network
South East Region Migrant Resource Centre (Vic)
Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre (Vic)
Springvale Community Aid and Advice Bureau (SCAAB) (Vic)
St Bede's Social Justice Group (NSW)
St George Migrant Resource Centre (NSW)
St George Youth Services (NSW)
St Vincent de Paul Society (NSW)
St Vincent de Paul Society (QLD)
St Vincent de Paul Society (WA)
Strategic Community Assistance to Refugee Families (SCARF) (NSW)
Sudanese Online Research Association (SORA) & Sudanese Australian Integrated Learning Program (SAIL) (Vic)
Survivors of Torture and Trauma Rehabilitation Service (STTARS) (SA)
Sydney Multicultural Community Services (NSW)
SydWest Multicultural Services (NSW)
Toowoomba Refugee and Migrant Support Service (TRAMS) (Qld)
Townsville Multicultural Support Group (Qld)
Uniting Care Cutting Edge (Vic)
Uniting Church in Australia - Queensland Synod
Uniting Church National Assembly
Uniting Justice Australia
Victorian Arabic Social Services
Victorian Multicultural Commission
Werribee Community and Education Centre (WCEC) (Vic)
Western Sydney Community Forum (NSW)
Whittlesea Community Connections (Vic)
World Vision Australia