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documented was concerning the provision of clothing and footwear provided to children. After conducting this inquiry they found that the delivery of essential goods was inadequate for many children in detention centres. A 13 year-old girl living on Nauru explained her struggles living with little clothing, “I only have two pairs of underwear...I feel shame each day I have to wash my pair of underwear and have to hang it to dry

responsible for any contravention of obligations, regardless of whether or not an Australian official was liable. However, the international obligations vary significantly between Australia, PNG and Nauru, creating much difficulty in terms of effectively implementing these obligations. For instance, Nauru is not a signatory to the Refugee Convention, nor do they have the domestic legal structure to implement such obligations, due to the impoverished state of the country (Dr Hathaway, 2016). PNG faces

Legal relevant laws: Australian Migration Act 1958: Australian Federal law states that any non Australian citizens who do not have a valid visa is to be detained, regardless of circumstances for a strictly limited period designed to obtain basic information about health, identity, security and basic information that supports a visa claim, may form a legitimate part of a system of immigration controls, as long as the detention is subject to effective review by a court. The people who do not have

In December of 2016 The New York Times published Roger Cohen’s ‘Broken Men in Paradise,’ an ethnographic exposé of Australia’s offshore immigration detention system. “The world’s refugee crisis,” writes Cohen, “with its 65 million people on the move, more than at any time since 1945, knows no more sustained, sinister or surreal exercise in cruelty than the South Pacific quasi-prisons Australia has established for its trickle of the migrant flood.” Cohen’s Op-Ed 1 centers on interviews with detained

centres on Manus and Nauru island. These centres were closed in 2008, but reopened in November, 2012 following a surge in asylum seekers arriving by boat. The processing centres, as they were called, were ironic in name and problematic in nature. Considered by many news outlets as the Guantanamo Bay of Australia, these centres accommodated detainees in poor living conditions, and lacked in many important areas. In his article from published in The Sydney Morning Herald ‘Nauru and Manus Island are

who arrive by boat. Under Australia 's system of mandatory detention, all non-citizens who are in Australia without a valid visa must be detained, including children. In 2012, offshore processing of asylum seekers commenced and detention centres in Nauru and Manus Island (Papua New Guinea) were established. This new system enforced policies that transferred asylum seekers who arrive by boat without a valid visa to a third country. Once the processing of asylum seekers was completed, those found to

UNHCR (2015) records that 2015 saw the highest number of displaced people seeking refugee and asylum seekers in different countries. Whereas many European nations have been considerate enough to open the borders for these unfortunate people, Australia has remained very passive responding to the world refugee crisis. In fact asylum seeker and refugee policies remain as one of the most controversial political debates in Australia. In the recent years the Austrian government has been adopting various

which adds up to a little over 200 liters (52 gallons). There is a small island in the south pacific though, called Nauru, that has an obesity rate of 71.7 percent which is actually the most obese country in the whole world. Now you’re probably wondering why I’m telling you that Mexico is the most overweight country since Nauru has a way higher obesity rate, and that is because Nauru is so small that we really only consider the more populous countries. Nauru’s population is only 9,400 people and the

Mr Mathangi Alagiah (42), his wife Priya (38) and their 13 year old son Maha are Sri Lankan Tamils who spent four years living in a refugee camp in India. They fled to Australia due to the living conditions in Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka there has been a dramatic growth in rates throughout different minority groups especially Tamils. Tamils comprise of approximately 18% of Sri Lankans population (http://countrystudies.us/sri-lanka/25.htm U.S. Library of Congress, (2014). and Tamil is also one of the

This is useful for my rationale as it is using the refugees voice allowing them to be apart of the debate. 2. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/20/nauru-and-manus-incident-reports-reveal-stream-of-despair-and-privation This article shows a video interview from psychologist Paul Stevenson, he talks about what really goes on and how Australia can’t see what is really going on at these detention centres