Australia’s policies on asylum seekers and media freedom criticised in new human rights report

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The report is critical of Australia's asylum seeker and refugee policies, saying medical facilities in Papua New Guinea and Nauru are not dealing properly with the complex health needs of those in offshore detention.

Media freedom, Indigenous rights and aged care in Australia are some of the issues raised in an annual report released by Human Rights Watch.

Australia’s offshore detention of asylum seekers was under review as part of the Human Rights report.Professor of Mental Health at the University of South Australia Nicholas Procter said prolonged uncertainty is continuing to impact those who have yet to be resettled. In February 2019, parliament passed a law facilitating transfers of detainees requiring medical treatment from offshore locations to Australia, but theProfessor Procter said the Medevac laws had provided extra safeguards for those in offshore detention.

"What we know is many aged care facilities are using psychotropic drugs, not necessarily to control symptoms but to control behaviour," he said. "There has also been a general approach from the government to treat pretty ordinary government procedures as secret. And obfuscation and avoidance by various governments from media scrutiny," he said.

 

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They are illegal they need to be returned to where they came from if the threw their identity away do what a lot of you do, get a false one and go wherever. Thank you

Can we concentrate on Australian citizens? I bet these people get better and quicker medical attention than those Australians in the outback.

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How about here in Australia do health services meet the standards for all?

Of course the leftards at SBS would parrot the propaganda from the unelected socialists at Human Rights Watch. No-one else of any consequence will pay them any meaningful attention.

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