The Government\u2019s latest attempt to prohibit items in immigration detention centres is a massive overreach, Greens Immigration spokesperson Nick McKim says.
\n\u201cThis is a transparent attempt to cut people in immigration detention off from the outside world,\u201d Senator McKim said.
\n\u201cPhones in immigration detention are absolutely essential.\u201d
\n\u201cThey allow people to stay in touch with friends and family, and they also help shine the disinfectant of sunlight on abuses which are all too common.\u201d
\n\u201cThere are many people in immigration detention who have no criminal history. These facilities are not prisons, despite the Government\u2019s attempts to make them such.”
\n\u201cThis is massive overreach and must be defeated in the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Government\u2019s latest attempt to prohibit items in immigration detention centres is a massive overreach, Greens Immigration spokesperson Nick McKim says. \u201cThis is a transparent attempt to cut people in immigration detention off from the outside world,\u201d Senator McKim said. \u201cPhones in immigration detention are absolutely essential.\u201d \u201cThey allow people to stay in touch with … Continue reading “Prohibited Items Bill”<\/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-6518","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\/6518","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=6518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}