Asylum seeker babies secretly moved to Christmas Island - by Sarah Whyte for The Age

4 July 2014


Incredibly sad news in the Age yesterday with a report that authorities removed families with young children and babies from Adelaide last week, doing so in the middle of the night to avoid attention.

Newborn babies and their families are being secretly moved in the dead of night to Christmas Island detention centre, which is widely considered as unsuitable for young children by medical practitioners.

It is believed at least five two-month-old babies, their siblings and parents were given no notice as they were forced to leave Adelaide's Inverbrackie detention centre at 3am last week, without access to any legal advice

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Asylum seeker babies secretly moved to Christmas Island - by Sarah Whyte for The Age