New report from Asylum Seeker Resource Centre details concerns for 47 refugees in PNG and 96 now on Nauru. Follow today’s news headlines liveOpposition leader Peter Dutton has flagged he will reintroduce legislation for the building construction watchdog – the Australian Building and Construction Commission, or the ABCC – in August.Speaking to the Today show earlier, he said:We’ll reintroduce that legislation for the building construction watchdog when we go back to parliament in August. We hope the government can support it because they abolished it at the request of the CFMEU.We need a tough cop on the beat that is independent, that is able to take action, and most importantly, that builders and contractors can go to [with the] safe knowledge that there’s not going to be intimidation as a result.The rates of mental and physical illness in people who were held offshore are higher than observed in comparable onshore populations and markedly higher than mainstream populations. This includes extremely high rates of mental disorders such as major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.When I was in the Manus Island centre, we didn’t have a medical facility, this is why I needed to get to Australia. But now, if people need a medical facility, they can’t get to Australia under the Medevac law … I know how bad it was in PNG. I was one of them. It’s really hard to live there. Continue reading…
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Author : Emily Wind
Publish date : 2024-07-18 21:49:47
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