[Greens-Media] Nauru in crisis, detention camp untenable

[Schultz-Byard, Noah (Sen S. Hanson-Young)]

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Thursday, 15 May 2014

Nauru in crisis, detention camp untenable

The political crisis on Nauru shows why the tiny island state is not capable of safely and humanely housing the refugees that Australia has dumped there, the Australian Greens have said.

"The Nauruan Parliament is clearly unstable and should not be responsible for a multi-billion dollar detention camp with women and children locked inside," the Greens' immigration spokesperson, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said.

"The Abbott Government is giving a substantial foreign aid bribe to Nauru for taking Australia's refugees.

"The unstable political situation on the island is just one more reason why the detention camp there is untenable.

"The Australian Government should be working with Nauru to encourage a stable and reliable political system in the country. Instead Tony Abbott is treating it like a colony and simply using our neighbour in the Pacific as a refugee dumping ground."


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