Immigration says 659 kids in detention
PETER TRUTE AAP

MELBOURNE: -- AUSTRALIA is holding 659 children in immigration detention, the human rights commission has heard.

DEPARTMENT of Immigration and Border Protection secretary Martin Bowles told a national inquiry the number of children being held in detention centres in Australia and offshore had fallen by more than 1330 since hitting a peak of 1992 in July, 2013.

Mr Bowles said the number of children being held at the Christmas Island detention centre was now 153, down by more than 530 in the past year.

Some of those children had been transferred to Nauru, where there were now 185 children being held.

Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) president Gillian Triggs asked Mr Bowles if he was being "straight forward with the Australian public" in stating numbers on Christmas Island were being reduced if children had simply been transferred to Nauru.

Mr Bowles responded that there had been a "significant and considerable decrease" in numbers of children being held.

"I reject the imputation that we are either misleading or lying to anybody in relation to the reduction of children in detention," he told the inquiry in Sydney on Thursday.

Full story: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/immigration-says-659-kids-in-detention/story-fni0xqi4-1227008856007

-- Herald Sun 2014-07-31

Can you imagine if large numbers of farang, let alone children, were held in detention centers because they did not have current legal status due to overstays or misuse of visa exempt entries? The bar stool righteous indignation spewers would have to be treated for apoplexy. But when it happens in the so-called "advanced" countries, they're just enforcing the law of the land.

 

 

                                                 

Can you imagine if large numbers of farang, let alone children, were held in detention centers because they did not have current legal status due to overstays or misuse of visa exempt entries? The bar stool righteous indignation spewers would have to be treated for apoplexy. But when it happens in the so-called "advanced" countries, they're just enforcing the law of the land.

 

 

                                                 

Just scraped in for post of the month.

The irony is that Australian businesses are going broke rapidly because there just are not enough customers to go around.  We need more immigrants.  The question is how?

 

Maybe not, but who wants their over priced imported crap anyway. Not many, I think on line purchasing is damaging the Aus retail industry.