All asylum-seeker children off Nauru by end of 2018


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The Morrison government plans to get every asylum-seeker child off Nauru by the end of the year, according to Australia’s ambassador to the UK George Brandis.


At least four families have been transferred to Adelaide in recent weeks, with the children now receiving care in an Adelaide hospital.


Earlier in the week, prime minister Scott Morrison confirmed his government was “quietly” working to get children off the Pacific island – one of Australia’s two main offshore centres for processing asylum seekers.


The Morrison government plans to get every asylum-seeker child off Nauru by the end of the year.


Border officials are now agreeing to medical transfers, where before asylum seeker children were rarely allowed to come to Australia without an order from the Federal Court.


“This is a problem that has largely gone away. There are hardly any children in Nauru and in New Guinea and we expect that by the end of this year there’ll be none,” Mr Brandis told talkback radio station LBC.


There are reports the government is quietly moving families off Nauru and relocating them to Adelaide.


 


SBS News understands there are around 40 or 50 asylum seeker children left on Nauru, out of a population of more than 500. There are more than 500 asylum seekers and refugees on Manus Island, too.


UK High Commissioner George Brandis.


 


Mr Morrison was asked about the plan on 2GB Radio on Thursday but did not confirm details.


He said Labor and others needed to show “respect” to locals on Nauru by not implying the local medical facilities were so bad they were inappropriate for asylum seekers.


Article source: http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/story/1116545.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

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