Join a RAR Group
Click on your state in the right hand side menu and find a group close to you. Contact the group directly via phone, email or Facebook to enquire about joining them.
They can let you know when they meet, what campaigns and events they have planned and add you to their email updates. See our ‘calendar’ for details on some of the events happening nationally.
We are always looking for new members. Here’s just some of what we do:
- Engage in Advocacy through letter writing, visits with MPs, social media campaigns.
- Fundraise.
- Organise materials for refugees to use when they come to Australia.
- Have various hosting events for refugees.
- Visit Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Detention Centres.
- Some groups do local school visits.
- Create local petitions relevant to their local area about things like The Welcome Zone.
- Raise awareness through things like local film nights and vigils.
- If there is no group near you, why not consider starting one?
Start a new RAR Group
Don’t see a group near you? Or want to have your Asylum Seeker or Refugee Support group listed on our website?
You need five people to meet, agree on a name for the group, set some objectives, agree on who will convene your group and who will be treasurer.
Feel free to get some ideas from this website. Fill out a Membership Form and send details to RAR Admin –
Go to ‘who we are’ to see our forms for staring a new group.
Other Groups
Regional Refugee Support Networks
- CVRSN – Central Victorian Refugee Support Network
- Email for further information
- Email for further information
- CRAG – Combined Refugee Action Group – Geelong, Victoria
- NVRSN – Northern Victoria Refugee Support Network
- Email for information –
- SCRAR – Surf Coast Rural Australians for Refugee
- SE-NSW-RSN – South Eastern NSW Refugee Support Network
- Email for further information – RAR Admin at
- Email –
Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, Faculty of Law UNSW
Amnesty International Australia
The Refugee Post – Amnesty’s Refugee Network (Vic) Newsletter
- Amnesty Australia Refugee Activists
- Refugees’ Human Rights
- ACT/NSW Refugee Action Group
- NSW Refugee Network
- Amnesty Refugee and Asylum Network – Qld/Northern NSW
- Amnesty Refugee Network (Vic)
- Amnesty Network – NSW
- Amnesty International SA Refugee Action Network
- Amnesty International Tasmania Refugee Action Group
- Amnesty Network – Vic
- Amnesty Refugee Network – WA
Amnesty Groups by State
- Amnesty Groups – New South Wales
- Amnesty Groups – Queensland
- Amnesty Groups – South Australia & Northern Territory
- Amnesty Groups – Tasmania
- Amnesty Groups – Victoria
- Amnesty Groups – Western Australia
Amnesty Individual Groups
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) – Victoria
- Email –
- Email –
Australian Refugee Action Network
- RAR was a founding member of Australian Refugee Action Network (ARAN), which is a national alliance of key refugee action and advocacy networks and groups with large memberships.
- Email –
Australian Refugee Association – ARA – SA
Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce
- Email –
Bayside Refugee Advocacy and and Support Association (BRASA) (formerly Hampton) – Victoria
BRASS network – Brisbane Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support Network
Brigidine Asylum Seeker Project – BASP
Buddies Refugee Support Group– (Sunshine Coast, Qld)
Canberra Refugee Action Committee – ACT
- Email –
CASPA – Catholic Alliance for People Seeking Asylum
DASSAN – Darwin Asylum Seeker Support and Advocacy Network – NT
- Email –
GADRC – Grandmothers Against Detention of Refugee Children
- Email –
- GADRC – La Trobe – Grandmothers Against Detention of Refugee Children
- GADRC – Melbourne Ports – Grandmothers Against Detention of Refugee Children
- GADRC – Newcastle – Grandmothers Against Detention of Refugee Children
- Email –
- GADRC – Southern Peninsula – Grandmothers Against Detention of Refugee Children
- Email –
- Email: Niko –
0406 296 141
International Alliance Against Mandatory Detention
- Facebook – Julian Burnside
- Facebook – Julian Burnside – Public
Migrant Resource Centre of South Australia (MRCSA)
- Email –
- Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Tasmania, Gold Coast, The Central Coast
- Email –
Refugee Action Collective Eurobodalla
Refugee Action Collective Illawarra
Refugee Action Collective (Queensland)
- Facebook – Refugee Action Collective (Queensland)
- Facebook – Refugee Action Collective (Gold Coast)
Refugee Action Coalition Sydney
Refugee Action Collective (Victoria)
Refugee Advocacy Network (RAN)– Victoria
- Email –
Refugee Legal (formerly Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre – RILC)
Refugee Rights Action Network (RRAN)– WA
Sanctuary Australia Foundation
SCARF (Stategic Community Assistance to Refugee Families) – Wollongong
Stop the Shame– Shoalhaven
TASS – Tasmanian Asylum Seeker Support
The Wesley Centre in Geelong has opened a ‘drop in’ centre for asylum seekers and people who have Temporary Protection Visas. The Welcome Place is open 2 days each week.
The Wesley Centre Asylum Seeker Welcome Place
218 Ryrie St, Geelong 3220
Phone: 0437 439 667
Opening times:
Wednesdays 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Fridays 1:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Closed public holidays.
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