Has the government betrayed it’s promise not to have children in detention?

86 children, of whom 59 are unaccompanied minors, are still being held in detention on Christmas Island, according to Amnesty International, who say this is a betrayal of the Rudd government’s professed humane approach to immigration. Not the case, says Minister for Immigration, Chris Evans …who told The Wire the children are in a separate, appropriate facility. Amnesty’s Refugee Co-ordinator, Dr Graham Thom, went to Christmas Island to see for himself.

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• Catherine Zengerer