The secret business of Nauru offshore detention camps haunts us still

November 24, 2025

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/the-shadow-of-the-tampa/

The secret business of Nauru offshore detention camps haunts us still. Thank you Julie Macken for the reminder of where it all began when Tampa hove into view and political machinations began.

The facts revealing that NZ bikies are now on the Australian Government payroll overseeing offshore detention caused barely a ripple with a public inured to harsh policies towards non- citizens.

What is even worse is that Australia’s toxic treatment of refugees and others has spread and is being adopted and proposed by nations as diverse as UK and EU countries.

Australia has led the way to dispose of people seeking peace from wars by hiding them in horrific conditions and paying failed states to take them.

We and they know the destructive effect on the human spirit of isolation in camps with no future.

We met the children and parents from Nauru. Children who turned their faces to the wall and gave up. Some have recovered and thrived when brought out of that hell but not all.

If Australia is to recover its soul this offshoring of humanity must cease.