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"Australia’s immigration policies allow for indefinite locked detention,
including for children and families. Detention is mandatory for people arriving
without a valid visa – all those who arrived by boat between 2009 and 2013 were
held in Immigration Detention Centres in Australia, or in Australian-contracted
detention in Nauru or Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Australian detention numbers peaked in mid-2013, with 2,000 children detained
at this time. By mid-2014, the average duration of detention exceeded 400 days.
While the last children were released from locked detention at the end of 2018,
Australian law and policy still mandate detention for children arriving without
visas. While the government refers to “held” or “locked” “detention”, to be
plain, these children were imprisoned for seeking asylum.
We have just published a study describing the health of asylum-seeker children
who experienced detention attending our Refugee Health Clinic over the past ten
years.
Our team has been seeing refugee children for more than 20 years. We have
extensive experience in refugee health, forensic medicine and child
development, but nothing prepared us for the complexity of looking after these
children."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
