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How does it make you feel as an Australian when you see 80 odd immigration detainees – some with VERY SERIOUS CRIMINAL RECORDS – released into the community YET this young girl who has excelled and has WON a scholarship to study law has been denied the right to study. This well loved, hard working and respected family have been waiting for 10 years to become Aussies. HOME AFFAIRS … Shame on YOU !!! Absolutely abysmal performance by this department and heads should roll. TEN YEARS and this family is still on bridging visas. WTF!!!
The ABC reported the following;
As the sun sets on a cool winter evening in Shepparton, dozens of people are gathering at the Masjid Nabi Akram mosque.
Tables are loaded with a buffet-like amount of food. People are eating and talking happily.
Bursts of laughter can be heard around the group. As adults talk, children are playing and running about.
At first glance, it looks like a celebration, but beneath the surface there is a much more serious, solemn tone to the gathering.
A group of asylum seekers and refugees from Iran make up the bulk of the crowd. Many of them have applied for protection status in Australia.
With some having spent a decade waiting to find out if they can settle permanently in Australia, they are stuck in limbo and desperate to share their stories.
‘Deprived’ of right to education
Atena Kashani does not know what it will take for her to become an Australian citizen.
The 18-year-old explained that despite having moved to Australia at a young age, her prospects of becoming a citizen were remote.
That news did not even arrive face-to-face. It came in a phone call.
“When they called me, they said your only pathway is the pathway to departure,” Ms Kashani said.
It is far removed from what her family expected when they came to Australia.
“We came with the expectation that we were finally going to be set free,” she said.
However, the reality is far different.
Despite being offered a scholarship, Ms Kashani says she is unable to study law because a condition of her bridging visa is that she cannot study at university.
“You’re meant to have the right to study. You’re meant to have the right to education,” she said.
“That’s been deprived of me.”
Ms Kashani was one of about 50 people who gathered at the mosque last week for a special event, complete with food and discussion.
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