Speakers:
DR MICHAEL DUDLEY
(Suicide Prevention Australia)
6pm Monday May 28, NSW Teachers Federation 23-33 Mary St, Surry Hills
This year marks 20 years since the introduction of mandatory detention. Before 1992, refugees who had arrived by boat were not detained. This changed when Cambodian refugees began arriving in 1989. In 1992 lawyers including Nick Poynder challenged the detention of asylum seekers. To stop this the Keating Labor government passed legislation on May 6 to entrench indefinite detention. This forum will discuss the history of the policy, and how it was not so long ago that mandatory detention did not exist.
