Seeking Asylum Down Under

A view of Australia's detention of asylum seekers and a search for an antidote to the dictum "might makes right"

Friday, November 24, 2006

Our Guantanamo?



"Those of us who have witnessed the disintegration of the human spirit in Baxter can only shudder at the impact this will have on whom ever is selected for incarceration in this place. Baxter is weeks away from closure bringing to an end the isolated detention camps of Curtin, Port Hedland, Woomera and now Baxter."
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