Refugee Update
Aug. 2nd, 2015 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyAn Afghan asylum seeker in his twenties has died at Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre in WA, possibly due to medical neglect.
The Guardian Australia has published a series of articles on IHMS (International Health and Medical Services), revealing incompetence and failure in the provision of healthcare to detainees in Australia, on Manus, and on Nauru, including evidence of breach of privacy with the Immigration Department being given asylum seekers' medical records for "political purposes"; the falsification of medical records; and of police checks not being completed for staffers working with children. Sarah Hanson-Young has asked the Federal Police to investigate.
Government plan to fast-track refugees in exchange for potential $19,000 fee: "A refugee's visa application would be fast-tracked if they paid a potential $19,000 fee and their family in Australia promised to cover health and welfare costs, under proposals the Abbott government is weighing to cut resettlement costs." Boat arrivals would not be eligible. If saving taxpayers' money is the goal, I have a different suggestion.
A little good news from my home away from home: Judge Orders Release of Immigrant Children Detained by U.S. (New York Times, 25 July). Importantly, it was the conditions in the centres which meant detaining children in them was illegal.
The Guardian Australia has published a series of articles on IHMS (International Health and Medical Services), revealing incompetence and failure in the provision of healthcare to detainees in Australia, on Manus, and on Nauru, including evidence of breach of privacy with the Immigration Department being given asylum seekers' medical records for "political purposes"; the falsification of medical records; and of police checks not being completed for staffers working with children. Sarah Hanson-Young has asked the Federal Police to investigate.
Government plan to fast-track refugees in exchange for potential $19,000 fee: "A refugee's visa application would be fast-tracked if they paid a potential $19,000 fee and their family in Australia promised to cover health and welfare costs, under proposals the Abbott government is weighing to cut resettlement costs." Boat arrivals would not be eligible. If saving taxpayers' money is the goal, I have a different suggestion.
A little good news from my home away from home: Judge Orders Release of Immigrant Children Detained by U.S. (New York Times, 25 July). Importantly, it was the conditions in the centres which meant detaining children in them was illegal.
