Refugees in Australia: some recent news
Australia's policy of mandatory detention for asylum seekers may have won votes in the the short term, but cost more than a billion dollars and is going to cost the nation a further fortune as victims get their rightful compensation. What was done to Parviz Yousefi makes me so upset that I'm not going to try to summarise it; please take a moment to read the article.
Mercifully, Sri Lankan refugees will shortly be settled here, with the detention centre on Nauru soon to close. (It's hard to have sympathy for the effect this will have on Nauru's economy, but it's hard not to have sympathy when detention centre jobs meant feeding your family. What a mess.)
The prison-like detention centre at Villawood here in Sydney, dubbed the worst in the country, may be closed.
Another wrongful detention: a Chinese man held for two years because of an administrative blunder. While at Villawood, he attempted suicide.
Mercifully, Sri Lankan refugees will shortly be settled here, with the detention centre on Nauru soon to close. (It's hard to have sympathy for the effect this will have on Nauru's economy, but it's hard not to have sympathy when detention centre jobs meant feeding your family. What a mess.)
The prison-like detention centre at Villawood here in Sydney, dubbed the worst in the country, may be closed.
Another wrongful detention: a Chinese man held for two years because of an administrative blunder. While at Villawood, he attempted suicide.