Peter Dutton is upset about the allegations that there is anything wrong with Australia’s offshore gulags.
“I’ve spent much of my professional career investigating sexual assaults and assaults against people and arresting people for that. I take these issues very seriously.”
Dutton left the police force when he was 28 after working in the drug squad.
“The trouble, frankly, with the approach of the Guardian and the ABC has been to trivialise the very serious issues by trying to promote the 2,100 reports as somehow all of those being serious when they’re not. Many of those reports relate to corporal punishment by children by their own parents. They report about some minor assaults by detainees on detainees, refugees on refugees.”
The Guardian in fact highlighted the allegations of family violence in the Nauru files and broke down the incident reports by seriousness and category.
“We are going through all of that information. It doesn’t help that the files leaked by Save the Children, they’ve only put out a redacted version. We’ve asked them for all of the details.”
Save the Children did not leak the files and the government already has the original unredacted copies.
He later said: “I’m not going to be defamed by the Guardian and by the ABC because we are doing everything within our power to provide support to people.”
Defamed? FFS this man is too much. People have died. People have been raped and beaten. People are self-harming.
According to the minister’s department, 98% of the men on Manus who have had their refugees claims assessed have been found to be refugees with a “well-founded fear of protection” in their homelands but “there is no third-country option available for people out of Manus at this point in time. We have a look at these people to help them return back to their country of origin or they settle in PNG. They are the two options available to these people.”
Hell or death.
For Dutton to say he will “look into” the allegations is gobsmacking. Perhaps he might like to read these reports while he is at it.
NAURU
- Amnesty International, Nauru Offshore Processing Facility Review 2012 (released November 2012)
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Mission to the Republic of Nauru: 3 to 5 December 2012 (released 14 December 2012)
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees monitoring visit to the Republic of Nauru 7 to 9 October 2013 (released 27 November 2013)
- Keith Hamburger AM, Nauru Review 2013: Executive Report of the Review into the 19 July 2013 Incident at the Nauru Regional Processing Centre (released 8 November 2014)
- Australian Human Rights Commission, The Forgotten Children (dated November 2014)
- Phillip Moss, Review into recent allegations relating to conditions and circumstances at the Regional Processing Centre in Nauru (released March 2015)
- Senate Select Committee, Taking Responsibility: Conditions and Circumstances at Australia’s Regional Processing Centre in Nauru (released 31 August 2015)
- C Doogan, Review of recommendation nine from the Moss Review (released 15 January 2016)
- Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Inquiry, Conditions and treatment of asylum seekers and refugees at the regional processing centres in the Republic of Nauru and Papua New Guinea (Interim report issued in May 2016 when Committee lapsed for 2016 federal election)
- Australian Women in Support of Women on Nauru, Protection denied, Abuse Condoned: Women on Nauru at Risk (released June 2016)
PNG
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Monitoring Visit to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea: 15 to 17 January 2013 (released 4 February 2013)
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Monitoring Visit to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea: 11 to 13 June 2013(released 12 July 2013)
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees monitoring visit to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea 23 to 25 October 2013 (released 27 November 2013)
- Amnesty International, This is Breaking People: Human Rights Violations at Australia’s Asylum Seeker Processing Centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (released December 2013)
- Robert Cornall AO, Review into the events of 16–18 February 2014 at the Manus Regional Processing Centre (dated May 2014)
- Robert Cornall AO, Review into Allegations of Sexual and Other Serious Assaults at the Manus Regional Processing Centre (released September 2014)
- Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee Inquiry into the incident at the Manus Island Detention Centre from 16 February to 18 February 2014 (released 11 December 2014)
- Human Rights Watch and Human Rights Law Centre, The Pacific Non-Solution: Two years on, refugees face uncertainty, restrictions on rights (dated July 2015)
- Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Inquiry, Conditions and treatment of asylum seekers and refugees at the regional processing centres in the Republic of Nauru and Papua New Guinea (Interim report issued in May 2016 when Committee lapsed for 2016 federal election).
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