House debates Questions without Notice

Asylum Seekers

Thursday, 27 March 2014 House of Representatives

Andrew Wilkie

Andrew Wilkie Denison, Independent

2:58 pm

My question is to the Prime Minister. Currently, there are 315 children in prison-like facilities on Christmas Island—some for almost a year. According to the president of the Human Rights Commission, conditions are so bad that these kids have stopped talking and refer to themselves by number rather than by name. Prime Minister, when will this stop? When will Australian governments stop being responsible for such abuse of children?

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