Everyone deserves to live in safety with their families, and to have a place to call home.
But around 700 people who have lived in the Australian community for years still don’t have the right to stay here permanently. They survived offshore detention in Nauru and Papua New Guinea, but under our migration laws, they are classified as ‘transitory persons’ and are not allowed to apply for any permanent visa.
They currently live here on insecure, short-term visas, but there is nothing transitory or temporary about the…
