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Tag Archives: David Isaacs
David Isaacs. As bad as Guantanamo
If I liken the immigration detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island to the US facility on Guantanamo Bay, even passionate advocates for those seeking asylum such as human rights lawyer Julian Burnside dismiss my concerns: “Oh we’re not as … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Refugees, Immigration
Tagged David Isaacs, Gillian Triggs, mental health, Nauru-and-Manus
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David Isaacs. Secrets and lies and bad morality: Australia’s policy on people seeking asylum
The latest episode in the long, sorry saga of how badly we can treat people seeking asylum was played out in the High Court in February 2016. Long because the story started in 1992 when the Paul Keating Labor government … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Politics, Refugees, Immigration
Tagged children in Nauru, David Isaacs
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David Isaacs, Alanna Maycock, The Senate Report on Nauru.
On 31st August 2015, the Senate finally tabled its lengthy report on conditions at what is euphemistically called the Regional Processing Centre in Nauru (http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Regional_processing_Nauru/Regional_processing_Nauru/Final_Report). The RPC is in reality a prison camp where people live indefinitely in tents, their … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Refugees, Immigration
Tagged Alanna Maycock, David Isaacs, detention-centres, Nauru, Senate Report on Nauru
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David Isaacs and Ian Kerridge. Asylum seeker’s ‘brain death’ shows failure of care and of democracy.
The news that Hamid Kehazaei, a 24-year-old Iranian asylum seeker detained on Manus Island, has been diagnosed as brain dead following his transfer to the Mater Hospital in Brisbane is a tragedy. That it is a tragedy for this young … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Human Rights, Refugees, Immigration
Tagged David Isaacs, Death on Manus, Ian Kerridge, Immigration Health Advisory Group
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David Isaacs. Impacts of detention on children.
I am a paediatrician. I specialise in paediatric infectious diseases but also work as a general paediatrician. For the last 10 years, I and my colleagues have run a Refugee Clinic at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, where we assess … Continue reading
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Tagged David Isaacs, duty of care, guardianship, Manus, Nauru, Post traumatic stress, Rights of the Child
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