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Australian government secretly moving refugee families from Nauru to Australian main land

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There are reports asylum-seeker families are being quietly flown from Australia's offshore processing centre on Nauru to Adelaide.

Nauru Airlines does not fly commercially to Adelaide, but its planes have been seen at the airport as recently as Monday [[October 29]].

An Adelaide-based church pastor has told S-B-S he's aware of between four and seven families having arrived in Adelaide from Nauru over the past four weeks.

He says they were all families with young children who needed urgent medical care, and are now receiving it at Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital.

The Refugee Action Collective's Ian Rintoul says that shows medical help in Nauru is lacking.

Government is planing to relocate all children of asylum seekers on Nauru to Australia

There are reports the federal government plans to relocate all children of asylum seekers on Nauru to Australia by the end of the year.

The Australian newspaper reports as of Monday, there are 40 children of asylum seekers remaining on the island, and an unofficial timeline has been set to have them moved to Australia by the end of 2018.

A total of 46 infants have been born to asylum seekers since Nauru was reopened for processing in 2012 and in the past several years, 244 children have been taken to Australia from offshore detention centres.

 

 

 


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By Dinesha Dilrukshi Wijesuriya

Source: SBS News



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