Right now, there's around 120 former Manus and Nauru
asylum-seeking detainees
being held in Brisbane's Kangaroo Point Central Hotel. This
is after they were flown to Australia under the now revoked Medevac
laws, as medical professionals assessed it was necessary due to
their conditions.
So, these men have compromised health, which is something the
coronavirus likes to target. Yet, they're being incarcerated in
an alternative place of detention (APOD) with no room to take
social distance from one another, or the Serco guards that watch
over them.
These men are not criminals. Successive federal governments have
detained them over the past seven years, as political tools used to
deter others from fleeing persecution from coming to this country,
even though international laws our nation has agreed to deem it
legal to do so.
