The Pacific Islands Forum is a regional intergovernmental organization of 18 Pacific countries. Australia is the largest member nation, with a population of 25 million. This year, in the first week of September, the annual forum meeting is being held on the tiny island nation of Nauru. Nauru houses Australia’s only remaining offshore immigration detention centre. That centre, a bastion of Australia’s implacably cruel asylum seeker detention policy, has again been in the news for the past several weeks as a crisis develops concerning the mental health of dozens of children detained indefinitely there. Continue reading “Australia’s Moral Disgrace: Child Mental Health Crisis in Australian Immigration Detention”
Australia’s Moral Disgrace: Child Mental Health Crisis in Australian Immigration Detention
