The Appalling Asylum Seeker Conditions

[azureline**]

This is disgraceful and I can only hope the people who are in charge fix this asap.

An asylum seeker who was moved off Nauru to give birth is being locked up for 18 hours a day in a detention centre in Brisbane while her week-old baby remains in hospital with respiratory problems.

The case of Latifa, a 31-year-old woman of the persecuted Rohingya people of Myanmar, has shocked churches and refugee advocates.

She was separated from her baby on Sunday, four days after a caesarean delivery, and has since been allowed to visit him only between 10am and 4pm in Brisbane's Mater Hospital. The boy, named Farus, has respiratory problems and needs round-the-clock medical care.

Latifa is confined to the Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation, 20 minutes away, where her husband and two children, four and seven, are being held.

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Latifa's husband, Niza, is not allowed to visit the child at all, according to people in daily contact with the family.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/asylum-seeker-mother-kept-from-newborn-baby-in...

[nevynreally]

Funny how some can be demeaning in their posting continuously.

Be an adult, and start acting like one.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@azureline** wrote:

Money is allocated to certain areas, it has no bearing on how much is spent by one area, they don't give the change to another one who might run short, they work withing their own budget.

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I thought this was worth repeating.

[underbat]

This thread has twice descended into interpersonal disputes, the subject has been well and truly hashed out.

Therefore this thread is now locked.