{"id":384311,"date":"2018-11-09T04:31:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T03:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/government-declares-child-refugees-will-not-remain-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2018-11-09T04:31:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T03:31:53","slug":"government-declares-child-refugees-will-not-remain-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/government-declares-child-refugees-will-not-remain-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Government declares child refugees will not remain in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Government declares child refugees will not remain in Australia<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Max Newman<br \/>\n    <br \/>8 November 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>About 40 refugee children and their families reportedly have arrived in Australia in recent weeks, after being medically transferred from the tiny Pacific island of Nauru, where successive Australian governments have indefinitely detained asylum seekers.<\/p>\n<p>Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton last week indicated that the remaining 27 children on the island\u2014many of whom have severe mental health problems after years of trauma and detention\u2014would be evacuated by the end of the year. However, Dutton declared that none of the families would be permitted to stay in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>In effect, they may receive limited medical treatment but will be subjected to equally cruel detention onshore until they can be removed from the country, either by \u201cresettlement\u201d or forced transfer back to the states they fled.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than signalling a relaxation of the inhuman incarceration of innocent people, the move is a cynical bid to placate a public outcry over the barbaric treatment of children, while reinforcing the underlying \u201cOperation Sovereign Borders\u201d\u2014the use of the military to repel all asylum seekers.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal-National Coalition government is continuing to challenge the right of Australia\u2019s Federal Court to order such medical evacuations, even in the direst of circumstances, in which children suffer \u201cresignation syndrome,\u201d refusing to eat.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s imprisonment of refugees in concentration-style camps, whether \u201coffshore\u201d or \u201conshore,\u201d has provided a precedent for the measures announced last week by US President Donald Trump to arrest and imprison all the desperate asylum seekers who manage to enter the US.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a longstanding bipartisan assault on the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/11\/08\/refu-n08.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Government declares child refugees will not remain in Australia By Max Newman 8 November 2018 About 40 refugee children and their families reportedly have arrived in Australia in recent weeks, after being medically transferred from the tiny Pacific island of Nauru, where successive Australian governments have indefinitely detained asylum seekers. Home Affairs Minister Peter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}