The Holding Pen
A shocking look at life inside Australia's notorious offshore detention centres
Protests, self-harm and attempted suicides; this 2013 report offers shocking insights to the conditions inside Australia's reopened offshore detention centres, Nauru and Manus island, which the EU may now emulate.
"You don't get a better deal if you get on a boat", says Prime Minister Julia Gillard, explaining project No Advantage. Under her new deterrent, refugees smuggled across the ocean to Australia were to face remote offshore processing instead of resettlement. But in spite of the new measures costing Australia $1 million per refugee, the number of asylum seekers increased, calling the quality of the detention centres into question. So what are the conditions really like? "Totally inadequate", Shane Fenwick, a former Salvation Army worker says. Hidden cameras show the full extent of the situation. Evidence confirms what many refugee advocates and human rights officials have alleged: that the centres breach the human rights of those being held there.
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