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UN monitor's cancelled visit 'an embarrassment', say advocates
A 2003 file photo of the front gate of the Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney. Source: AAP / MICK TSIKAS/AAPIMAGE
The UN's Sub-Committee on Prevention of Torture has abandoned its tour of the country's detention centres altogether, blaming the New South Wales and Queensland governments' refusal to grant it unrestricted access.
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