Earlier in the year we watched with horror as two children were snatched by DIMIA officials from their Primary school in Stanmore. Teachers, students and members of the general public were alarmed by the bullying culture that enables this to happen. It is becoming clearer by the day that abuse is endemic to the detention system.
We now find that the grabbing of these children was a DIMIA error. The trauma the family suffered was totally uncalled for.
These abuses will not happen if we have a practicable and humane community based system to manage review of migration cases. The culture of detention itself is at fault and will remain a blight on the Australian landscape.
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