For giving aid unquestioningly to those who need it, for its charismatic and bombastic founder Kon Karapanagiotidis, and for its denunciation of the politics of division, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre is one of Melbourne’s most iconic charities. But even it is not immune from Victoria’s psychic dislocation.
In 2019, according to Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission records, it had 1227 volunteers. In its most recent disclosures to the charities regulator, filed in January this year, it had 491.
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