\u201cThe first responsibility of any Australian government is to keep Australian children safe. It is extraordinary how few politicians in Canberra seem to understand this basic fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLast September I met with one of the children held in these camps who was 6 years old and spoke with a broad Australian accent that took me straight home. She drew me a picture of her favourite story, Rapunzel, with roses she had never seen in a garden she could only dream of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe 23 Australian children trapped in the dangerous Syrian detention camp are victims of ISIS. They had no choice in going to Syria to have their childhoods devastated like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is shocking that both Angus Taylor and Anthony Albanese are failing a moral test that was set by Scott Morrsion who said when he assisted children to return in 2020 that \u2018these young children who are coming back to Australia, they can\u2019t be held responsible for the crimes of their parents.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe women and children who are Australian citizens will come home, the only thing that will change is how they come home. Will it be in an orderly and monitored way where Australian agencies can integrate people back into the community and monitor community safety or will it be an unplanned and risky mess?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOne Nation, Labor and the Coalition are in a race to the bottom here, demonising children, stoking fear and now threatening to jail people for the \u2018crime\u2019 of bringing kids to safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen I met with local Syrian representatives last year they knew the dangers of ISIS, they had fought the appalling war against them and defeated them. They said Australia should bring these women and children home because they are our responsibility. The US has said the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOnce the Government abandons, defames and attacks children who have done nothing wrong, what is to stop them doing this to any Australian citizen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is a moral vacuum at the heart of this debate which is the real threat to Australia, and that\u2019s the threat politics needs to meet.\u201d Over 20 Australian children have been held in desert detention camps in Syria for half-a-decade. One Nation, the Liberals and Labor have condemned these children to a dangerous and uncertain future in their lurch towards anti-immigration dog whistling. Responding to the hateful campaigning of One Nation, the current Coalition Leader, Angus Taylor, now wants to … Continue reading “Greens: Australian Children belong safe in Australia, not in a dangerous desert camp”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37604,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37603\/revisions\/37604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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