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Australia’s offshore detention policies have helped to produce indifference to the suffering of refugees. Pushing refugees out of sight, and out of mind, has now placed them beyond moral concern.
Richer nations are increasingly looking to offshore their immigration processing and further their own economic and political interests at the same time.
Hungry for dignity, migrants are resisting their cruel detention using the only tool left available to them.
A bill to allow for asylum seeker on Nauru and Manus Island to be transferred to Australia for medical and psychiatric treatment has passed both Houses. How will it change things for those detained?
As families are airlifted off Nauru for medical treatment, there is at last a glimmer of hope that a long-standing and cruel policy might finally be put to rest.
Over 200 children are still in asylum seeker detention within Australia and offshore – so why aren’t we more outraged about that?
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