Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that:

(i)

the young people detained in the Magill Youth Training Centre in South Australia are being held in degrading conditions, and

(ii)

in the assessment of the 2009 Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations (UN), Mr Chris Varney, this represents a breach of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child;

(b)

recognises that:

(i)

in 2006, the South Australian Labor Government acknowledged that the centre was in need of replacement, as it breached modern building codes and occupational health and safety requirements, and

(ii)

the South Australian Government is yet to keep its election promise to build a new facility; and

(c)

calls on the Federal Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare and Youth (Ms Ellis) to intervene in this urgent matter and ensure that a new centre is built, as promised by the South Australian Government.