Asylum Seekers to Australia : A New National Policy
Outrage has spread in recent days with the High Court decision to send babies born in Australia to the Nauru detention centre.
Paediatricians are facing potential jail sentences for reporting the mental condition of young children being sent to the centre after alleged sexual assaults, with even onshore detention centres creating the worst mental health problems doctors have seen.
Late last year over six hundred asylum seekers in detention in Nauru made a request to the Prime Minister to allow them to commit suicide.
Almost a thousand academics, experts on child psychology, human rights, public policy and the law, from universities across the country have appealed to the government to release children held in detention.
Federal MP Tanya Plibersek has correctly described Australian politics around asylum seekers to be "nothing less than toxic".
There has to be a better way; and there is.
The following proposed national policy has been produced by Damien Kingsbury, Professor of International Politics, Deakin University, with assistance from Daye Gang, Lev Lafayette, and Anthony Leong. It will eventually require political support and the political will from the major parties. But it will begin with the concerted effort of people who are sickened by how asylum seekers have been treated for political gain.
More at: http://isocracy.org/node/383
Credits & Style Info
Talk Politics. A place to discuss politics without egomaniacal mods
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
Something I've been working on over the past few months
Date: 3/2/16 12:50 (UTC)Outrage has spread in recent days with the High Court decision to send babies born in Australia to the Nauru detention centre.
Paediatricians are facing potential jail sentences for reporting the mental condition of young children being sent to the centre after alleged sexual assaults, with even onshore detention centres creating the worst mental health problems doctors have seen.
Late last year over six hundred asylum seekers in detention in Nauru made a request to the Prime Minister to allow them to commit suicide.
Almost a thousand academics, experts on child psychology, human rights, public policy and the law, from universities across the country have appealed to the government to release children held in detention.
Federal MP Tanya Plibersek has correctly described Australian politics around asylum seekers to be "nothing less than toxic".
There has to be a better way; and there is.
The following proposed national policy has been produced by Damien Kingsbury, Professor of International Politics, Deakin University, with assistance from Daye Gang, Lev Lafayette, and Anthony Leong. It will eventually require political support and the political will from the major parties. But it will begin with the concerted effort of people who are sickened by how asylum seekers have been treated for political gain.
More at:
http://isocracy.org/node/383