What About The Children?

I am amazed and disgusted that in all the indignation over what Gillian Triggs should or shouldn't have done or who said or didn't say what to her, not ONE SINGLE POLITICIAN  except, finally, Malcolm Turnbull, has commented in any way on the contents of her report..

 

She found that  over a 15-month period from January 2013 to March 2014, spanning both the Labor and Coalition governments  there were 233 recorded assaults involving children and 33 incidents of reported sexual assault. 

 

If these findings are true - and as far as I know nobody has so far disputed them -   then what is going to be done about it? Who had the duty of care? who is going to be held responsible. What measures are going to be put in place to stop this abuse happening in future?

 

Both Gillian Triggs and George Brandis are astute and comparitively wealthy adults able to instruct top  legal practitioners to protect their reputaions - but who is going to protect the safety of these children? How many more children have been abused since March 2014? Is a child perhaps being abused in a detention centre  even while you are reading this post? 

 

Surely to goodness after all that was learned from the Children In Care Royal Commission this report cannot simply be put in a "don't want to know" basket while both sides of Pariament try to gain political mileage out the motives of the Human Rghts Commissioner or the behaviour of the Attourney General.

 

At some point -though probably not in the lifetime of this government  or even  the one that follows it - there will inevitably be a Royal Commission into the treatment of children in detention centre. what do you imagine its findings are likely to be?

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@icyfroth wrote:

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

@poddster wrote:

I reiterate

 

ele if you had the means to protect one of 2 children and one of them happens to be a family member, wouldnt you protect that one?

 

 


I may only have one heart, Poddy, but I have two arms.

 

And if you think that's a silly answer then take a long hard look at the question, because it's the best answer it deserves.


Well Ms Triggs had the right instincts.

 

Gave her profoundly disabled daughter into foster care in order to focus on her abled children.

 

And her career, no doubt.


Acting on the best information she had at the time

Do we know what affect that had on her life

Would think that would have been an easy decision

How many years ago was it

 

Judgement is so easy to pass, without all the information.

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The day that happens I'll be be ashamed to be Australian
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@vicr3000 wrote:
Pod

If we hadnt spent or wasted so much money on AS, we could have spent more on other Australian children, namely aboriginal who suffer abuse and sexual assault.


Agree but the leftists on here will never let a common sense argument get in the way of a good Abbott bashing, to try to undermine the govt. It's a leftist thing.

 

Doing the Hanson Young crocodile tears about illegal immigrants and their offspring. If they fled for their lives, were facing death, what's the problem in staying in a safe place? being resettled in a safe haven country? 

 

I'll tell you all what the problem is, they want the golden ticket to Australia, they want the first world country, the end of the rainbow that all their previous relatives  got  under labor.

 

When the country was flooded by illegals every day, the navy run ragged because the illegals  sabotaged the boats, jettisoned their papers and documents then lied through their teeth to hoodwink officials, we heard nothing from the usual suspects on here.

 

so SHYoung crocodile tears? most definitively yes.

 

And yes, what about the "closing the gap" the appalling situation Aboriginals find themselves in, the violence and sexual abuse, the alcoholism and bushings?  the hopelessness of the young children? the homelessness and housing shortage, what about that? not a word, not a peep, why? because this whole argument is political, nothing to do with the "poor little munchkins".

 

I never heard the poor benighted Aboriginal children referred to as "the poor little munchkins". 

 

 

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Yes, I did have a laugh at SHY's "concerns" over the children.

 

It's a pity she didn't have such concerns when they were dying by the 1000's.

 

She is such a hypocrite.

 

I wouldn't mind sending her 1200 coffins with "Name:- Accidents Happen" on them

 

 

 

Sexual abuse in aboriginal children is rife, far worse than the numbers in detention.

Someone said to me a few years ago, you wouldn't find an Aboriginal virgin over the age of 15.

 

 

 

Navy ?

We need to replace the boats because we wore them out so fast because of the AS.

The operational tempo was higher than being at war.

 

 

 

 

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@icyfroth wrote:

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

@poddster wrote:

I reiterate

 

ele if you had the means to protect one of 2 children and one of them happens to be a family member, wouldnt you protect that one?

 

 


I may only have one heart, Poddy, but I have two arms.

 

And if you think that's a silly answer then take a long hard look at the question, because it's the best answer it deserves.


Well Ms Triggs had the right instincts.

 

Gave her profoundly disabled daughter into foster care in order to focus on her abled children.

 

And her career, no doubt.


Well said icy, her priorities are on show every day, she jettisoned her own child because she was inconveniently disabled, shame on her.

 

Her sympathy lies with non citizens, illegal immigrants and their offspring & all the while our own Aboriginal people are suffering more than any of us could ever know, looking into their hopeless future whilst billions have been wasted, (under labor) to assist illegal immigrants, county shoppers, economic refugees bleeding the country dry.

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

@idlewhile wrote:

There is a lot of coaching and tuturing of immigrants by advocates on how to riot, self harm and concoct stories about abuse.

 

The majority of Australians  are sick of the left and Labor  and the HRC and their contortions of trying to manipulate and emote unfounded advocates reports for political gain.

 

The Australian public is more than happy with the way the government is handling the illegal immigrant situation, they  stopped the unfettered taxi service to Australia by people smugglers and country shopping economic refugees.

 

End of story, if the left and labor can't see their ineptitude and failings re border security then they deserve to be in opposition and the HRC should be disbanded as too party political and no longer has the confidence of the public, thanks to Triggs.

 

 

 


Oh Idlewhile, you just can't help yourself, can you?

This thread isn't about the political shortcomings of any party or person. It is about children being abused in detention centres.

Are you saying the testimony of the children involved is all lies and there was no abuse? (that's what a representative of the  Catholic Churchwent on TV to say about early reports of abuse at the boys home at bindoon in WA - I remember the interview well.

Are you saying some children were abused but only during those periods when a Labor government was in office?

Are you saying children were abused but it's their parents fault for bringing them here in leaky boats?

Or are you saying they are only illegals so who gives a toss anyway.


Here you go again, making it personal, how's that working out for you?

 

Verballing and accusing in an antagonistic manner.

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When the country was flooded by illegals every day

 

Never did happen. Never been flooded by illegals.

 

And off topic..

 

 

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Glee

 

Flooded by Illegal Country Shoppers Smiley LOL

 

 

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

Well Ms Triggs had the right instincts.

 

Gave her profoundly disabled daughter into foster care in order to focus on her abled children.

 

And her career, no doubt.

 

And this has some bearing on whether refugee children in detention centres are less deserving of protecion than Australian children in the community?


It was in answer to the question Poddster put to you re Sophie's choice in post 205

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