{"id":4979,"date":"2016-05-03T14:23:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T04:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/?p=4979"},"modified":"2016-05-03T14:23:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T04:23:46","slug":"dutton-lies-refugees-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/?p=4979","title":{"rendered":"Dutton lies, refugees die"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the Immigration Minister\u2019s attempts to deflect the blame<\/a>, it is the government that is responsible for the appalling conditions they have created on Nauru.<\/p>\n

Dutton even created his own \u201cchildren overboard” moment by suggesting there was a threat from refugees to \u2018assets\u2019 on Nauru.<\/p>\n

Dutton boasts about the money invested in a new hospital on Nauru, but that hospital is not functioning. Omid and Hodan were treated in the shockingly unsatisfactory conditions of the old hospital. Even basic medical supplies were not available at the hospital to properly treat Omid.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government itself is playing a dangerous game with the lives of asylum seekers and refugees – in Australia and on Nauru. Offshore processing and the government\u2019s mismanagement of the situation is costing lives,\u201d said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeter Dutton does not have a shred of evidence that advocates encourage refugees to self-harm. This is the same line Scott Morrison tried about the Save the Children workers in 2014 and that was shown to be completely false. But Dutton has learned nothing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis dismissive attitude to the distress of the asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru will only put more people at risk. He should seek the advice of mental health experts before he makes such ill-informed pronouncements.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there is plenty of evidence that the Department of Immigration and Border Force, IHMS and mental health workers in Australia and Nauru have failed even a basic duty of care to people under their control.<\/p>\n

Hodan was under high security 24-hour watch in the Brisbane Transit Accommodation when she was snatched by Border Force officers last Wednesday morning, because she was considered to be “at risk.\u201d In the two weeks before she was removed from Brisbane, she made a number of self-harm attempts.<\/p>\n

Hodan\u2019s removal was reckless in the extreme, and directly contributed to her suicide attempt on Nauru.<\/p>\n

On the very night that Hodan was returned to Nauru, she swallowed washing powder at the IHMS clinic, OPC 1. She has been in OPC 12 under \u201chigh watch\u201d since she was returned to Nauru.<\/p>\n

\u201cHodan was a known suicide risk. It is Peter Dutton, IHMS and mental health workers who have to explain how Hodan was able to leave OPC 1 and attempt self-immolation at the bus stop,\u201d said Rintoul. \u201cIt is Peter Dutton and offshore processing that robbed Omid and Hodan of their hope. To belittle her distress and her need for help has condemned the Minister and the policy and exposed how little care there is for those who need it.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information contact Ian Rintoul 0417 275 713<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite the Immigration Minister\u2019s attempts to deflect the blame, it is the government that is responsible for the appalling conditions they have created on Nauru. Dutton even created his own \u201cchildren overboard” moment by suggesting there was a threat from refugees to \u2018assets\u2019 on Nauru. Dutton boasts about the money invested in a new hospital […]<\/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-4979","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\/4979","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=4979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}