Australian government defends detaining asylum-seeker children

An illegal Alien is an ILLEGAL ALIEN, makes NO difference of age. If the USA followed what Japan does, our country wouldn't have HALF the problems of money it DOES!

@WA4

Are you a 100 per cent full-blooded Aboriginal?

If not, better to stay quiet about immigration in Australia....

@Renie

Yes, you got me, I mis-read. : )

But replace "Aboriginal" with Native American", and you get my gist, no?

were plagued by despair and suffering symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Isn't it possible that those conditions weren't caused by the detention but by the fact that they didn't make it to Australia? And that if they had been immediately return to the home country they would have the exact same despair and PTSD symptoms?

Government can't govern country with emotion and Government has to do its job by head. Human Right Commissioner has to do her job with heart but her job can't save children and adult drowning at sea. Human Right advocates’ action is encouraging peoples to bring children and risking their lives at sea. Tony Abbott Government has saving many lives if you like Government border security policy or not. UN Refugee Convention Charter was out date. Australia should quit UN Refugee Convention and should be doing with its own policy.

For better or worse , at least Austrailia is trying to get a grip on this, unlike those ostriches in the U.S!

Deaths at sea have dropped sharply to near zero. Human lives are being saved. Now isn't that just awful. Seems the human trafficking mafia gets the message.

The children are safe in the detention centres, whereas they claim to have been in danger in the places they have come from. That's an improvement for the better, yet still people moan. Eventually they will be resettled. It may not be where they wanted to go, but you can't have everything. There is no inherent right to be able to live in whatever country you please.

The problem is Human Right Advocates are teaching Children and adults in detention center to how to depress and get preference treatment from immigration department and support from Australian peoples. That's their business and without refugees they don't have income. They have to change their professional. They should focus on saving lives from downing at sea rather than their income from refugees.