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Where are the detention centres?
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How do they look?
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How do they treat people?
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It is shocking the way they treat innocent people, like children, in detention centres all around Australia. It looks as if they are some kind of criminals. Lots of these immigrants are being forced out of their home country. Some of them , like children, don’t have any choice and are being moved from their family and country to, what they are hoping for, will be a better and saffer place to live. And what do we do? We lock them up, for what could be their whole lifes.
Earlier this week a three-year-old girl, who had spent her entire life behind bars, was released from a detention centre with her mother after a psychiatrist’s warning over her mental health. Lots of other people are experiencing this same problems. Some immigrants are born in this horrifying detention centres and will eventually die in them too.
The immigration minister has referred 201 cases of possible wrongful detention to an internal inquiry.
The inquiry, headed by former federal police chief Mick Palmer, was initially set up to investigate the wrongful detention of Cornelia Rau, an Australian resident who ended up in an immigration centre.
The Palmer Inquiry was later expanded to look into the case of Vivien Alvarez-Solon, an Australia citizen who was deported to the Philippines in 2001.
A senate inquiry learned on Wednesday that Queensland police were notified about the wrongful deportation of Ms Alvarez-Solon in 2003, by mid-ranking immigration officials who apparently did nothing.
Australia’s ABC television has claimed Mr Palmer, after concluding his investigation will recommend that the government set up a wider inquiry with judicial powers to investigate the 201 other cases of possible wrongful detention.
The immigration minister didn’t confirm the claim, but said she would take Mr Palmer’s advice on how to move forward with the investigations.
The minister has in the past resisted calls for a public inquiry into the Rau and Alvarez-Solon cases.
Australia has a policy of mandatory detention of asylum-seekers and its practice of also detaining children has drawn international criticism, including from Amnesty International.
In the wake of the apology the government reversed an earlier decision and said a Vietnamese boy born in Australia to asylum-seeker parents would not be sent back to offshore detention on Christmas Island.
I believe that that immigrants who arrive to Australia should get a proper investigation on their background before they are put into detention centres.
May 24th, 2006 at 3:37 am
really good! terrible though!!!