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Govt turns its back on asylum-seeker reform
Greens Media Release, Sarah Hanson-Young, Monday 19, April 2010
The re-opening of the notorious Curtin Detention Centre shows the Federal Government has abandoned its promises to provide real reform of Australian asylum-seeker policy, according to Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young. “Housing asylum-seekers in desert prisons is not fair, practical or humane.”
http://greensmps.org.au/content/media-release/govt-turns-its-back-asylum-seeker-reform
Refugee Action Collective (Victoria)
We know from past experience that detention centres with no external visitors and humanising influences fester into places where violence and abuse become the dominant culture.
http://www.rac-vic.org/html/02curtin-detention.htm
Curtin Detention Centre to expand
Katherine Fenech, WA Today, September 17, 2010
Curtin is currently home to 753 asylum seekers, but that number would increase to 1200 single adult men “in the coming months”. “If you're going to have 1200 single men in that environment, many of them desperate, separated from their homeland, from families from wives, children, they're going to be in a desperate situation, very uncertain, it's a powder keg type circumstance.”
http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/curtin-detention-centre-to-expand-20100917-15fm7.html
John Howard’s mental health policy for asylum seekers at Curtin