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<\/a>\u201cIt is absurd for the Attorney-General Senator Brandis to deny the obvious – that the government is in breach of its international obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child,\u201d said Rintoul. “It seems the government has learned nothing from its ‘near death experience’ ”<\/p>\n\u201cThe government\u2019s own submission to the inquiry states, \u2018\u2026the Australian Government\u2019s view is that in making the decision [to transfer to Nauru], the best interests of such children are outweighed by other primary considerations.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThe children and their families detained on Nauru are as much the responsibility of Australia as those still detained in mainland detention centres. They are the victims of the deal done with the Palmer United Party Senators who supported the re-introduction of temporary protection visas last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were arbitrarily selected for transfer to Nauru. The inquiry reveals that the \u2018pre-transfer assessment process\u2019 and the \u201cbest interests assessment\u201d are a farce. Now they are arbitrarily detained in appalling conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Refugee Action Coalition agrees with the the overarching finding of the Inquiry, \u201c..that the prolonged, mandatory detention of asylum seeker children causes them significant mental and physical illness and developmental delays, in breach of Australia\u2019s international obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n
And, what is true of children detained is true for all those detained.<\/p>\n
The Refugee Action Coalition calls for all the immediate closure of Nauru and for all children and their families and for all asylum seekers and refugees to be brought to the mainland, and allowed to live and work in the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government is spending billions of dollars to maintain the detention centre on Nauru while it tries to drive though budget cuts to health, welfare and services,\u201d said Rintoul.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead of cutting Medicare, the billions of dollars spent destroying lives in detention, could be spent supporting services needed by asylum seekers, refugees, pensioners and the whole community.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information contact Ian Rintoul 0417 275 713<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Human Rights Commission inquiry has revealed shocking details of the detention conditions on Nauru. \u201cThe lack of water, the lack of basic clothing and shoes, the lack of proper education facilities; all of this reveals a detention regime in which children are simply pawns of government policy,\u201d said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":{"0":"post-3768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-press-releases","7":"tag-nauru"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/311091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}