😢 Biloela family gets visas but Labor still leaving thousands of refugees in limbo
“I waited so many years to be with my family. Being reunited with them is a relief. I wish that the Australian government could have processed the visas faster. There are lots of other people just like us – if the government can act faster on their visas, that would mean a whole new world for those families.”
“I (am) treated like an animal, the Australian government, they make us sick, mentally physically, everything,” he said. Read the article
The federal government has sought to keep secret a list of dozens of hotels, schools, clinics, hospitals, businesses and homes it uses as makeshift detention facilities for refugees and asylum seekers across Greater Melbourne. Read the article here
It referred to evidence provided to the House of Commons which showed that of the 2116 documented assaults, sexual abuse cases or self-harm attempts in the Australian offshore centres between May 2013 and October 2015, half of those incidents involved children.