The first time Australia introduced detention was in 1991 at Villawood in Sydney and Port Headland in Western Australia. The mandatory detention came in 1992 and the government at the time said it was to prevent the country from too many unauthorized refugee boats from South East Asia that can possibly test their resolve and capacity to ensure that immigration takes place within a planned and controlled framework.

Today, the situation has worsened and the most vulnerable people are arriving from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sri Lanka, and Australia has been imprisoning refugees on remote Pacific Islands, setting a bad example of lack of human sympathy for the rest of the world to follow. With Europe now struggling to control a huge number of refugees coming from the Middle East and Africa, walls and fences are being built across the continent in an attempt to keep them out.

Australia has previously implemented remote detention camps with high fences for the isolation of the inhabitants.

The Australian Immigration authorities have deported more criminals with mental health conditions back to New Zealand without warning the officials in the country about the state of their minds. These people are dangerous, as they have been involved in criminal activities in the past and are clinically insane.

About the Deportees

In December 2014, the Australian Immigration authorities tightened immigration laws under section Act 501 that stated that the visas of anyone with more than 12 months of imprisonment or for people who have committed offences against children are to be deported immediately.

As a result, New Zealand citizens being deported have increased six fold and around 1000 people are to be deported in the next 5 years. Most of the people sent back to New Zealand are criminals who have served their time in jail in Australia or after stints in immigration detention centers. A majority of these people have lived in Australia almost all of their lives and do not have any links with friends or family in New Zealand.

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A Dying Man’s Last Wish

A Pakistani student, Hassan Asif, who came to Australia to study architecture, was diagnosed with terminal skin cancer in July 2015 while he studying in the country. He had been receiving outreach palliative care right after the diagnosis. As his condition deteriorated, he was transferred to a specialist medical institution for intensive care. The doctors declared that he was in no condition to go back all the way to Pakistan to his family, although he had planned to go back to his home country someday and work as an architect.

Because he knew he was dying, and that he could not go back home, he made an appeal to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection to allow his brother and mother to travel to Australia, so he could be with them as he dies.

In an emotional appeal, he requested that like anyone who has limited days left in the world, he would also want to spend this time with his family as his mother desperately wants to be with him during this time.