Three Liberal MPs plead to get children off Nauru

Federal Liberal M-Ps are reportedly pleading with Prime Minister Scott Morrison to get more than 80 children and their asylum-seeking parents off Nauru.

Asylum seekers at Nauru

تحتجز استراليا عشرات الاطفال في المراكز التابعة لدائرة الهجرة في ناورو Source: Getty Images

 

Federal Liberal M-Ps are reportedly pleading with Prime Minister Scott Morrison to get more than 80 children and their asylum-seeking parents off Nauru.

Newscorp is reporting government backbenchers Russell Broadbent, Craig Laundy, and Julia Banks believe the situation in the Pacific island detention centre has now reached a “tipping point”.

Mr Broadbent and Mr Laundy met Mr Morrison last month [[September]]  to ask for all of the children and their ­families to be brought to Australia, giving priority to the children who need urgent medical treatment.

Under their proposal, the asylum seekers would be in Australia only temporarily -- either in detention or on community bridging visas -- until they were resettled in a third nation.

 

 


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Published 16 October 2018 4:29pm
Updated 17 October 2018 9:50am
By Hachem El-Haddad
Source: SBS

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