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dreamer_easyGuys - I'm going to ask you to do something for me. This is the Australian Prime Minister's address:
The Hon Julia Gillard MP
Prime Minister
Parliament House
CANBERRA ACT 2600
Will you send her a postcard, from wherever you are in the world? Asking her, politely, to immediately release all children held in immigration detention? You can mention that you saw the Age report linked to below - also mention if you're a parent yourself.
(Please do pass this request on if you can.)
Traumatised children self-harming in detention:
"Children as young as nine have been involved in a spate of self-harm incidents in immigration detention facilities, despite child psychiatrists issuing repeated warnings over the past decade of the dangers of detaining children.
The incidents include children slashing their wrists, arms and bodies with razor blades, a 17-year-old boy who tried to hang himself, and another 17-year-old boy who repeatedly bashed his head against a metal pole after hearing that a review of his case had failed. The boy had to be taken to hospital.
A nine-year-old boy, the youngest child known to have hurt himself in the 16-month period, deliberately overdosed on 10 of his mother's Panadeine tablets. He told an interpreter 'he was going crazy' in detention, and took the drugs knowing what they were and what they could do to him."
The Hon Julia Gillard MP
Prime Minister
Parliament House
CANBERRA ACT 2600
Will you send her a postcard, from wherever you are in the world? Asking her, politely, to immediately release all children held in immigration detention? You can mention that you saw the Age report linked to below - also mention if you're a parent yourself.
(Please do pass this request on if you can.)
Traumatised children self-harming in detention:
"Children as young as nine have been involved in a spate of self-harm incidents in immigration detention facilities, despite child psychiatrists issuing repeated warnings over the past decade of the dangers of detaining children.
The incidents include children slashing their wrists, arms and bodies with razor blades, a 17-year-old boy who tried to hang himself, and another 17-year-old boy who repeatedly bashed his head against a metal pole after hearing that a review of his case had failed. The boy had to be taken to hospital.
A nine-year-old boy, the youngest child known to have hurt himself in the 16-month period, deliberately overdosed on 10 of his mother's Panadeine tablets. He told an interpreter 'he was going crazy' in detention, and took the drugs knowing what they were and what they could do to him."
