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    determinants of health have a great impact of ones quality of life and tend to influence certain health issues that are prevalentable in today’s society. The article ‘Immigration department releases Phillip Moss review of how asylum seekers are treated on Nauru’ (News corp Australia network 2015) expresses the asylum seekers accusations of harassment. The trading of sexual favors for drugs outlines the social determinant, addiction. The people left in the detentions centers are completely shunned from the

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    the history of Australia. According to Australian Humans Rights Commission (AHRC) report (2014), Australia currently holds about 800 children in mandatory closed immigration detention for indeterminate periods, this includes 186 children detained on Nauru. Children and their families have been held separately on Christmas Island for an ordinary 14 months. Over 167 babies have been born in custody within the last 24 months. Some Australian politicians say that such detention is necessary for Australia

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    When my mother decided to come to Australia she didn’t flee her country because of any kind of physical suffering, but instead left the country because of mental suffering from her mother just passing away in 1991. My mother was lucky because she didn’t face further suffering once in Australia since there wasn’t anything to discriminate against; there wasn’t a language gap because she could speak English and she was well educated, she had a European look and did not do anything culturally outstanding

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    hypothesis: Should the sections of the border force act that prohibit doctors from disclosing inhumane conditions/act in the detention facilities be overturned The legislation of prohibiting workers from disclosing inhumane conditions breaches numerous agreements Australia has legally been binded to. The UN have explicitly stated how the Australian Government in the past and present, have been violating human rights and breaching Article 31 of the Refugee Convention where it states that; ‘Refugees

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    We, as a country, have apologized, however a statement of regret can't fix the wrong that was finished. Or maybe, a statement of regret is an assertion of sense of duty regarding guarantee that the errors of the past never reemerge. Unfortunately, these are unfilled words if there are no activities to back them up; more terrible yet, in the event that our activities as a country repudiate what we say. The 2013 government race focussed vigorously on the issue of refuge searchers, specifically the

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    This poignant photograph of a refugee girl named Hudea so anxious by the crosshairs of war that she gazed into a camera’s telephoto lens and subsequently mistook it for a barrel of a gun and raised her arms in submission has been shared around the world. The panic in the little girl’s eyes as she beat and pursed her lips to stop herself from crying has instigated an outpouring emotion about the “heart-breaking” image displaying how “humanity failed” in the refugee crisis. BBC Trending interviewed

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    argue Australia's famous routine of uncertain compulsory confinement as bringing about genuine harm to defenceless individuals who have effectively endured injury and abuse. By extraditing refugees to insufficient offices in Manus Island and Nauru in complete isolation away from society, or stranding families in confinement and in neediness here in Australia. Bashford and Strange suggest that Australia government is failing the Australian soul of decency and sympathy. Australia's Movement

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    vulnerability of asylum seekers by offering them unsafe passage by sea to our shores. 
There were 584 children detained in immigration detention centres on mainland Australia and 305 children on Christmas Island. A further 179 children were detained on Nauru as at 31 March 2014. Almost all children in Australian detention centres either travelled to Australia by boat without a visa or were born in detention. The number of people arriving by boat rose substantially from

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    large and continuous outpour of refugees from Sri Lanka, the result this has had on surrounding countries such as Indian, Australia and some south east Asian countries. This case also accurately communicates the difficulties financially, physically, mentally and emotionally on refugees whilst fleeing their countries and seeking asylum. It is also indicates that refugees struggle with these same difficulties with the added complication of the language barrier and other social and cultural issues when

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    Australia has adopted a relatively conservative policy towards asylum seekers and both the Labor and the Liberal party support policies designed to reduce the number of refugees brought into Australia. The issue of refugees within Australia is a controversial one, and has attracted a diverse range of opinions within the public. Prime minister Tony Abbott made the issue of asylum seekers a major aspect of his election campaign in 2013, promising to implement strict policies regarding the acceptance

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