The time has come to make a difference...

No work, no welfare, no Medicare ... community-based asylum seekers can't live on oxygen alone.

It's time for the Howard Government to give all community-based asylum seekers work rights and health benefits.

There are people who live within a few blocks of my house who are here in Australia as refugees, whose lives have been so awful that the better option is to live here without any welfare support, medicare access or even the right to work.

Our government provides them with a weekly allowance of $25 which has to cover all their needs. They have to rely on handouts from charity organizations to meet the rest of their needs, or alternatively work illegally with the risk of being deported if caught.

The time has come for me to stop simply talking about the injustice that I am ashamed to see my country openly perpetrating, but it's time to get involved and help make a difference in these people's lives.

Here's somewhere that we can all start...



Click to sign this petition sponsored by Anna Burke MP for the Chisholm Electorate here in Melbourne.

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