I still have my ‘Kids don’t belong in detention centres’ T-shirt from 2002, although it has shrunk in the cupboard 🙂
A birthday wish – “No children in detention centres.”
It is with great regret that we inform you that ChilOut has reactivated as a campaign group. ChilOut (Children Out Of Immigration Detention) is a group of parents and citizens opposed to the mandatory detention of children in the Australian immigration detention regime.
From 2001-2006 we campaigned to release children from immigration detention. In 2005, after a long and committed campaign by many groups such as ours, the Migration Act was amended to include the principle that “Children should be detained as a measure of last resort.” At that time, all remaining detainee children were released into community arrangements.
Sadly, there are over 700 children in immigration detention right now. With the increase in political rhetoric on boat arrivals, the political willpower to do the right thing by children is dwindling.
Get behind the campaign to have kids released from detention. We can do better as a nation.
| Take action! |
| To kickstart the campaign, we want as many letters as posible to flood the new Immigration Minister’s office. Let him know that Australians want kids out of detention. See more information at Chilout. |
See also Christian compassion 4 boat people? and Refugee Mythbusting Animation-GetUp! and Refugee Sunday 2010 and ‘Boat people have no friends’
