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Royal Children's Hospital doctors refusing to send asylum-seeker children back to detention centres (Herald Sun, 11 October 2015): "We see a whole range of physical, mental, emotional and social disturbances that are really severe and we have no hope of improving these things when we have to discharge our patients back into detention."
Children 'almost impossible to treat' while detained, Royal Children's Hospital doctors say (ABC, 11 October 2015): "'... our team see children with nightmares, bed wetting, severe behaviour problems, anxiety and depression,' the hospital's head of general medicine, Dr Tom Connell, said. 'It's become so common that it's almost normal in children from detention to have these symptoms... it's almost impossible to treat these children effectively while they remain detained.'"
ETA: More coverage of the doctors' heroic stance from the SMH , The Age, and Guardian Australia.
The shame of Australia's offshore war on women (GA, 11 October 2015)
I didn't manage to keep up with the terrible reports coming out of the Senate inquiry, but here's the result: Nauru detention centre not safe for children, says Senate committee calling for full audit into abuse claims (ABC, 1 September 2015) | All children should be removed from Nauru detention, Senate inquiry finds (GA, 31 August 2015)
Children 'almost impossible to treat' while detained, Royal Children's Hospital doctors say (ABC, 11 October 2015): "'... our team see children with nightmares, bed wetting, severe behaviour problems, anxiety and depression,' the hospital's head of general medicine, Dr Tom Connell, said. 'It's become so common that it's almost normal in children from detention to have these symptoms... it's almost impossible to treat these children effectively while they remain detained.'"
ETA: More coverage of the doctors' heroic stance from the SMH , The Age, and Guardian Australia.
The shame of Australia's offshore war on women (GA, 11 October 2015)
I didn't manage to keep up with the terrible reports coming out of the Senate inquiry, but here's the result: Nauru detention centre not safe for children, says Senate committee calling for full audit into abuse claims (ABC, 1 September 2015) | All children should be removed from Nauru detention, Senate inquiry finds (GA, 31 August 2015)
