Explaining offshore processing
Australia has a shameful record on offshore processing of innocent asylum-seekers and refugees.
The approach, supported by both Coalition and Labor, has led to death in some cases and physical and psychological damage in many others.
Now other governments around the world are looking at adopting the “Australian model”.
We are providing a link here to an article that criticises the offshore detention policy and outlines its history … and its failings.
The article has been written by Madeline Gleeson, Senior Research Fellow at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney, and Natasha Yacoub, Visiting Research Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford.