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On Thursday night, dozens of deportees are gathering to hear more about it. Prominent human rights lawyer Craig Tuck is involved, as are legal experts in New Zealand and Australia. They don t like the way they were treated, they don t like the way they were strong-armed, they don t like the way they were separated from their children, said Tom Harris of Waitematā Community Law Centre. And they really don t like the way they re sent back here and haven t been in New Zealand since they were children.
A feeling all too familiar for men like Ace. We re not New Zealand s problem, we re Australia s problem. I didn t go to jail in New Zealand, I went to jail in Australia. So maybe if I learnt anything I learnt it in Australia.
Brisbane, Australia
– In the early hours of the morning, security guards at an inner-city motel and serviced apartment complex in Brisbane would begin knocking on each door. They were conducting a headcount, checking that everyone was still inside their room, and still alive, just as they had every day since the start of 2019.
This was Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point Central Hotel & Apartments, a makeshift immigration detention centre which the Australian government terms “an alternative place of detention” (APOD).
Until this week, it had been used to confine people like 32-year-old Iraqi Ahmad Albardan and other refugees and asylum seekers who were detained at either of Australia’s offshore processing facilities – Nauru and Manus Island, both around 4,000km from Australia’s shores – but had been sent to Australia for medical treatment under the country’s now repealed medevac law.
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