Like them, I believe that no children belong in detention and I am grateful for their courage in drawing attention to this issue.
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Reading comments online on your articles about this matter, there seems to be some misinformation about asylum seekers.
Ninety per cent of asylum seekers who come by boat are found to be refugees escaping war and persecution. We lock up asylum seekers who come by boat but not those who come by plane.
On average, it costs Australian taxpayers $450,000 a year to detain one person on Nauru or Manus Island. Asylum seekers who come by plane and are given work rights cost Australia almost nothing.
Australia receives only 0.29 per cent of the world's refugees.
Why do we lock up children in detention, on Third World islands, for fleeing for their lives?
