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Edmund Rice Centre

15 Henley Rd
(PO Box 2219)
Homebush West,
NSW 2140
AUSTRALIA

Ph:  (02) 8762 4200
Fx:  (02) 8762 4220

Int'l Ph: +61 2 8762 4200
Int'l Fx: +61 2 8762 4220

Email: erc@erc.org.au

Located just 100 metres to the south of Flemington Railway Station. Link to new location on Google Maps

Brisbane Annexe

5 Abingdon St
(Postal: 84 Park Rd)
Woolloongabba,
QLD 4102

Ph 1: (07) 3103 7376
Ph 2: (02) 8090 1976
Fax: (02) 8762 4220

Staffed part-time
 - please call for appt

 

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Submissions to Government and other inquiries from the Edmund Rice Centre, partner organisations and other supportive organisations. Also has resources to make submissions to inquiries.
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NEWS: ERC has moved to a new location!

The Edmund Rice Centre has left its Croydon location to move to new premises at Flemington / Homebush West. The move took place during the week Monday 18th August to Friday 22nd August 2008. NB: ERC email was out from Thurs 21st to Wed 26th August 2008

The new location, only 100 metres to the south of Flemington railway station, is on ground level and fully accessible.

New address:

Edmund Rice Centre
PO Box 2219 (15 Henley Rd )
Homebush West NSW 2140 

Ph:  (02) 8762 4200
Fax: (02) 8762 4220
link to ERC's new location on Google Maps
The Staff and Board of the Edmund Rice Centre wish to express their debt of gratitude to the Sisters of St Joseph who were our gracious hosts in the St Anthony's building at Croydon for the past 3 years.

ERC Submission: Violence against Women and Children

The Federal government is developing a National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and Children. Lilla: International Women's Network, initiated by the Edmund Rice Centre (ERC) has made a submission to inform the development of this National Plan.

In this submission, Lilla argues that grass-roots women's initiatives are the fundamental building blocks of any effective, sustainable and long-term effort to eliminate violence against women. Lilla urges the National Council overseeing the developement of this new National Plan to adopt as a key over-arching strategy: the empowerment of women from victims of violence to agents of social change.

The full submission can be read here.

ERC Submission: Immigration Detention

The Edmund Rice Centre has made a submission to the Federal Parliament's Inquiry into Immigration Detention. The Inquiry which was called in June by Senator Evans, the Minster for Immigration is being conducted by Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Migration.

In its submission the Edmund Rice Centre (ERC) argues that mandatory detention should be dropped immediately, presenting evidence of how it is in breach of Australia's legal commitments under the 1951 Convention relating to the status of refugees.

ERC submits that:
• Australian reception of asylum seekers should embrace a continuum of measures ordinarily based on well-supported accommodation with communities which may, in extreme circumstances, include detention.
• Any decisions concerning which measure to apply in particular cases should only be applied after proper judicial review according to the principles of proportionality and necessity consonant with Human Rights Law.
• Wide community involvement and engagement with Government is the best way to fulfil Australia's commitments under the Convention.

The full submission can be read here
 

Nothing new in Tony Abbott's paternalism

Professor Mick Dodson responds to comments by Health Minister Tony Abbott that Indigenous communities might benefit from renewed Government paternalism.

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Update: ERC Director, Phil Glendenning, recently returned to Australia from Afghanistan after 10 days interviewing returned asylum seekers again in Kabul.

ERC is redoubling our efforts to find a third-country resettlement option for those returnees from Australia with whom we have been able to make contact. We need financial support to achieve this.

Such work uncovers high levels of risk for the deportees (and for our researchers). Research publications are available here.

Listen to Phil speak of the visit to ABC Radio National's Phillip Adams.

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Just Comment series:-
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15.1: Famine: a Man-Made Tragedy
14.3: Riots - the Language of the Unheard
14.2: Insidious Violence - Depleted Uranium Weapons
14.1: Disaster Capitalism
13.8: Murray-Darling - environmental & social tight-rope
13.7: Consensual democracy vs conflictual democracy
13.6: West Papua - colonisation alive & well
13.5: Climate change - still a great moral challenge
13.4: First peoples, first priority, what priority?

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