Children ‘used as political fodder’

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22 August 2004

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CHILDREN’S drawings now on show in Sydney reveal the harshest system of mandatory detention in the Western world, says a leading Catholic social activist.

Sr Patty Fawkner, director of Uniya, the Jesuit Social Justice Centre, said the images “are the pictorial record of the seeds of what will almost certainly be long-term harm”.

She said the detained children have been used as political, scaremongering fodder.

And three months after the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission report into children in detention, she said there has been no significant implementation of the report’s recommendations – despite Government claims to the contrary.

“We have been told by the minister that there is only one child left in detention. Not true!,” Sr Fawkner said.

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