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A Senate committee has today determined action is required but failed to support two Greens’ bills that would stop Indonesian children being imprisoned as adults and poor fisher men being used as scapegoats for people smuggling kingpins. “The bills seek to correct injustices in the system that have led to little fish being caught by Australian authorities while people smuggling syndicate heads continue to get away,” Greens’ immigration spokesperson, Sen. Sarah Hanson-Young, said. “One bill seeks to ensure people who…

The Joint Select Committee on the Immigration Detention Network was damning in its assessment of the problems within the system, such as the urgency of time limits on detention, that cannot be ignored, the Australian Greens said today. “The Government and Coalition are opposed to time limits and are trying to treat this as business as usual,” Greens’ immigration spokesperson, Sen. Sarah Hanson-Young, said. “This is just simply impractical and inhumane – and is wasting billions of tax payer dollars.…

The report delivered today by the Joint Select Committee on the Immigration Detention Network contains critical recommendations that the government must urgently implement in full. “The recommendations provide a blue print for a humane, practical and cost-effective response to asylum seekers,” Greens’ immigration spokesperson, Sen. Sarah Hanson-Young, said. “Prolonged and indefinite detention is at the heart of the crisis in our immigration detention network. The evidence gathered by the Committee and the findings presented in this report are a sobering…