Asylum seeker families released into the Adelaide community could end up homeless, according to a group of people rallying for their support. The ABC understands that people previously held in the Inverbrackie Immigration Detention Centre at Woodside in the Adelaide Hills are being released on bridging visas. It is not known if the Federal Governments reintroduction last week of temporary protection visas is behind the release. Six weeks is not a long time to find suitable accommodation and when English is your second language and you come from a different country ... it can be quite scary. Tenille Chambers Asylum seekers have told supporters that those released into the community would only be provided with six weeks accommodation. Tenille Chambers, who has visited families at Inverbrackie for the past year, was concerned they might not be able to find housing, particularly with the holiday season and closures just around the corner. Six weeks is not a long time to find suitable accommodation and when English is your second language and you come from a different country ... it can be quite scary, she said. Ms Chambers is forming a group with other Inverbrackie visitors to find ways to help the asylum seekers. We just want to make sure there are some in the community that are available to house and host families that have just been released so they dont become homeless, she said. The ABC contacted the Federal Department of Immigration but has not yet received an answer. Inverbrackie to close next week Inverbrackie is expected to shut next week as one of six centres across Australia that the Federal Government is closing in a cost saving measure. Prior to the recent release of an estimated 11 families on bridging visas, two busloads of asylum seekers had already been removed and transferred to a detention centre in Darwin. Mark Riessen is another regular visitor to Inverbrackie. He said families were given little notice about the move to Darwin, which some described as traumatic. Ms Chambers said the move displaced families who had come to know each other in detention and could have helped support each other outside the centre. She said she was trying to find out if those who were transferred to Darwin would also be released into the community. Inverbrackie was first opened on the site of former Defence Force accommodation in 2010 where it grew a reputation as being one of the nations more humane and family friendly centres.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:12:40 +0000
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