Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

And that was how they were brought up for 10 years until they got here.

Patrick has been a lawyer for about 12 years now, but his passion for social justice started back in his volunteering days at his local community legal centre and then at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

To kick things off, I asked Patrick how he found himself in this area of law.

Law was sort of my second career.

It was in the corporate world.

So I was a sort of corporate guy for a long time where I was advising companies on employee morale and employee engagement and the like.

Spent a lot of times in big boardrooms in corporate companies and I was doing my law degree while I was doing that work and then I finished that law degree and decided I really wanted to volunteer my time at community legal centres and then got involved with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

And I remember reading a story, actually, which started the process for me.

Someone is there doing their job.

So on the line now is Con Carapanagiotis, who is the founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

And he's also saying that as a proud Greek-Australian, he's very distressed by the crowd that was booing the Welcome to Country.

Con, good afternoon.

As uncomfortable as that is, that's what we saw happening there.

Okay, Con, thank you.

That's Con Karapanagiotis, who is the CEO and the founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, and he's calling on the president of the South Melbourne Halas to apologise for the booing during the Welcome to Country.