Submissions

STARTTS prepares submissions in our areas of expertise to help raise issues which are relevant to our clients. They may be in response to State and Federal Parliamentary inquiries, or inquiries by Government departments or other agencies.

 We are particularly interested in providing comment on:

    *Health related matters of relevance to refugees
      (especially mental health),

    *Immigration related matters,

    *Settlement issues
     (housing, employment, income support etc), and

    *Human rights issues.

STARTTS does this through direct submissions, or in partnership with other agencies, such as the Forum of Australian Services for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (FASSTT) and the Non-English Speak Backgroun Housing Taskforce, of which we are members.

An organisation of supporters, Friends of STARTTS, (FOS) is also involved in making submissions of this type.

STARTTS' Submissions

August 2008

Submission to Department of Immigration and Citizenship on the Review of Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) Discussion Paper

Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration's Inquiry into Immigration Detention in Australia

March 2008

Submission to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship's 2008/09 Refugee and Humanitarian Intake program

August 2007

Submission to the Australian Senate Community Affairs Committee Inquiry into Mental Health Services in Australia

June 2006 

Submission to the NSW Department of Housing Reshaping Public Housing Reforms – Targeting and Tenure Access Allocation and Tenure Framework 

Friends of Starts (FOS) Submissions

May 2008

Submission to the Australian Citizenship Test Review

November 2006 

Submission to Department of Immigration and Citizenship on the Citizenship Test Discussion Paper

May 2002 

Submission to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention


Submissions of related organisations

September 2007

Non-English Speaking Background (NESB) Housing Taskforce Submission to Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs'  (FaCSIA) inquiry into Increasing the Supply of Social Housing

June 2007

The Forum of Australian Services for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (FASSTT) Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Regarding the Inquiry into the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Testing) Bill