Under the new arrangements, 468 asylum seeker children will be - TopicsExpress



          

Under the new arrangements, 468 asylum seeker children will be transferred from Christmas Island to the mainland. They will be processed under new “fast-track” assessments. Fast track” applicants will face an abbreviated refugee assessment process – enhanced screening is already as short as four questions – and they will be forbidden from appealing their refugee determination to the Refugee Review Tribunal. The United Nations has warned the new assessments could lead to people being sent back to be tortured. There are still 167 children on Nauru, unaffected by the bill. 24 babies born to asylum seekers in Australia will now be sent to Nauru under provisions in the new legislation. They will be stateless.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 23:06:49 +0000

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