Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Communications, representing the Minister for Home Affairs. Minister, I refer you to the 119 children currently in offshore detention on Nauru, and specifically to the case of a 12-year-old boy who is on a hunger strike, who weighs just 36 kilograms. Is it true that doctors have advised your government that the boy is at risk of death within days? Is it true that the reason you have not evacuated him to Australia for desperately needed medical treatment is that you insist that he travel without his family? Minister, why will you not allow his family to travel with him?