The Refugee Council of Australia’s made a submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration’s inquiry into Migration, Pathway to Nation Building. Australia has welcomed 950,000 refugees and...
Submissions
The Refugee Council of Australia regularly makes submissions to inquiries and reviews on a wide range of issues affecting refugees in Australia. You can also search and find submissions by topic for the past two years here. (For older submissions, see our page on archived submissions below).Latest submissions
Submission to the review of the Workforce Australia employment services system
Since the Refugee Council of Australia began its work in 1981, we have consistently seen and documented how refugees who come to Australia and seek protection or who are resettled, are strongly motivated to rebuild...
Submission on the Migration Amendment (Evacuation To Safety) Bill 2023
The Refugee Council urges Federal Parliamentarians to support this Bill to evacuate people held in offshore processing to safety while they wait for a durable solution. This Bill sets out a constructive option...
UN Committee Against Torture notes concerns about Australia’s refugee policies
RCOA has urged the Australian Government to act on a new United Nations Committee Against Torture report which highlights breaches of international law in Australia’s treatment of refugees. RCOA, together with the...
Intake & archived submissions
Submissions on international issues
Submission on the New International Development Policy
As the national peak body for refugees and people seeking asylum and the organisations and individuals who work with and support them, the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) has advocated for many years for a whole-of...
Australia’s engagement in Afghanistan
This submission highlighted key issues relating to Australia's engagement in Afghanistan, including costs, the need for an emergency response, the impacts on disapora communities, and its impact on people from...
Submission on the Migration and Citizenship Legislation Amendment (Strengthening Information Provisions) Bill 2020
This submission opposes a Bil that would deny refugee applicants procedural fairness through a secretive Ministerial process which they would be unable to challenge. The Bill offends the principles of the rule of law...
Submission to the inquiry into strengthening Australia’s relationships with countries in the Pacific region
This submission recommends that the Committee considers the damage that Australia’s offshore processing policies have caused to our relationships with Nauru and PNG and to our standing in the Pacific region, and that...
