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Babies and children to go back to Nauru
Angela Beresford | February 15, 2016Hundreds continue to rally outside a Brisbane hospital against the deportation of an asylum seeker infant known as Asha. She is one of 267 refugees currently in Australia due to be sent back to detention on Naru. Angela Beresford says the Government’s tough stance makes her blood boil.
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Children in immigration detention: government sanctioned child abuse?
Angela Beresford | February 19, 2015Tony Abbott has rejected the Australian Human Rights Commission report on children in immigration detention as ‘blatantly partisan’. Angela Beresford says it’s obvious that the government is out of touch with society and reality.
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Children in immigration detention: Worse than Guantanamo Bay?
Angela Beresford | September 3, 2014There is mounting evidence that children in immigration detention are subject to appalling physical and mental maltreatment. Angela Beresford speculates about the political motives of the Australian Government.