<strong>Exclusive: </strong>Federal government under scrutiny as documents reveal serious security lapses at Melbourne and Villawood immigration detention centres
Australia has had off-shore immigration detention since the 1990s, for most of that time it’s been run by private security. Journalists and human rights organizations have been banned from entry. Manus Island, and Nauru being the two main camps holding immigrants. Obviously these places are known for their human rights violations.
There’s also domestic detention centers that act as jails and prisons, many of which have consistently had aboriginal deaths in custody (to the point that the phrase “aboriginal deaths in custody” has it’s own Wikipedia page.
Australia has never come to terms with its colonial past as a genocidal prison colony, so those qualities are now reproduced as tools of racism to brutalise select demographics.
It is a deep and ongoing product of a history that’s never been processed or come to terms with culturally. These topics are barely skimmed in the education system if at all, with most of the underlying issues are successfully ignored.
To their supporters this is a feature…not a bug.
They just want to punish
$2.3 Billion contract! less thwn thwt would be needed to integrate them in aussie society
And I would rather pay that and more to do so. Integrating people rather than trying to send them away is more humane and better for our society. We need immigration, the breadth of culture here is a massive positive and makes this a great country. The cost argument for restricting immigration is absolutely insane, we end up spending so much more on getting rid of people than we would just taking them in.
Guantanamo Bay is the MAGA model for ICE.
Wanna talk about Nauru Canberra?
