NEWS
campusreview.com.au
Academics against
detaining children
Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre Photo: Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Higher education staff continue to pressure PM
to release children from immigration facilities.
By James Wells
M
ore than 950 academics have
called on Prime Minister Malcolm
Turnbull to intervene personally
after a senior government senator rebuffed
the group’s recent efforts to secure the
release of all children remaining in onshore
and offshore immigration detention.
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