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<p>Asylum seekers and staff at the Australian-run Nauru immigration detention centre evacuated after construction workers raise the alarm </p><p>Asylum seekers and staff at the Nauru detention centre were evacuated after construction workers found unexploded ordnance at the site of a new building for refugees.</p><p>Guardian Australia understands that a device was discovered by one of the contractors tasked to build the new refugee settlement at refugee processing centre 3 (RPC3). Asylum seekers and staff at RPC3 were evacuated on Tuesday while the risks were assessed.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/27/unexploded-wartime-bomb-found-at-nauru-refugee-centre-building-site">Continue reading...</a>
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<p>Report by No Business in Abuse says operator paid $1.4m a day and point to 47 violations of international law at the detention centres since Transfield took over</p><p>Transfield Services has received $1.5bn from the federal government since being contracted in October 2012 to manage Australia’s detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru, a report has found. </p><p>There have been 47 violations of international law at the centres since Transfield took on the contract three years ago, according to the report by not-for-profit group <a href="https://www.nobusinessinabuse.org/">No Business in Abuse</a>.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/27/transfield-given-15bn-over-three-years-to-manage-nauru-and-manus-centres">Continue reading...</a>
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<p>For more than 40 days the transit zone has been home to Khasan Aman Ando and his children as they attempt to claim Russian asylum. <a href="https://meduza.io/en/galleries/2015/10/21/life-in-a-glass-box">Meduza</a> paid them a visit</p><p>For more than 40 days a family of Iraqi Kurdish refugees have come to call a glass box in the transit area of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport home.</p><p>Khasan Aman Ando, his wife, Gulistan, and their four children (aged between three and 13) are attempting to claim asylum in Russia after fleeing from their hometown in Iraq, currently under siege from Islamic State (Isis).<br tabindex="-1" /></p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/27/refugees-moscow-airport-sheremetyevo-russia-iraqi-kurdish-family">Continue reading...</a>
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<p>The former Australian PM has been criticised by Christian leaders, the Labor party and the Greens for his advice to Europe on handling the refugee crisis</p><p>Tony Abbott did Australia proud during a major speech in London, in which he urged European leaders to ignore a core tenet of the Bible to enact tougher border protection measures, the Liberal backbencher Cory Bernardi has said.</p><p>Abbott, who was training to be a priest before switching to politics and becoming prime minister, gave the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/28/tony-abbott-urges-europe-to-adopt-australian-border-policies">second Margaret Thatcher Lecture in London</a> on Tuesday night. In it, he urged European leaders to adopt Australia’s hardline approach to asylum seekers.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/28/tony-abbotts-did-australia-proud-in-uk-speech-on-refugees-cory-bernardi-says">Continue reading...</a>
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<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/tony-abbott" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class=" u-underline">Tony Abbott</a> did Australia proud during a major speech in London, in which he urged European leaders to ignore a core tenet of the Bible to enact tougher border protection measures, the Liberal backbencher Cory Bernardi has said.</p>
<p>Abbott, who was training to be a priest before switching to politics and becoming prime minister, gave the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/28/tony-abbott-urges-europe-to-adopt-australian-border-policies" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">second Margaret Thatcher Lecture in London</a> on Tuesday night. In it, he urged European leaders to adopt Australia’s hardline approach to asylum seekers.</p>
<p>“Implicitly or explicitly, the imperative to love your neighbour as you love yourself is at the heart of every western polity,” he told the conservative crowd. “But right now this wholesome instinct is leading much of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class=" u-underline">Europe</a> into catastrophic error.”</p>
<p>Bernardi said he put forward Abbott’s name to give the speech in the first place.</p>
<p> “Tony Abbott did us proud last night,” he told Sky News on Wednesday.</p>
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<p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/26/eu-and-balkan-leaders-agree-migration-plan" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">EU and Balkans agree plan for 100,000 places in reception centres for refugees</a> </p>
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<p>But many Christian leaders disagreed, saying Australia should be advocating for a more compassionate response to the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/26/eu-and-balkan-leaders-agree-migration-plan" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">refugee crisis</a>.</p>
<p>“I’m ashamed that a former Australian PM would be putting out a message like this,” retired bishop <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/catholic-priests-slam-tony-abbotts-antiimmigration-margaret-thatcher-lecture-20151027-gkk9cj.html#ixzz3ppflQjXA" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">Pat Power told Fairfax</a>. “People will make their own judgments but that’s completely at odds with what’s at the heart of Christianity. I’m certainly offended.”</p>
<p>The Australian Christian Lobby, one of the most conservative Christian groups in the country, has advocated for a doubling of the humanitarian intake, focusing on persecuted minorities and family groups.</p>
<p>“We probably could be a little bit more generous,” the ACL acting director, Martyn Iles, told Guardian Australia. “It’s a Christian value to be generous even when it costs you something.</p>
<p>“The government ought to be very generous with what it does [with asylum seekers], while still looking after its flock. “Both [tenets] should be exercised at the same time.”</p>
<p>The opposition leader, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/bill-shorten" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class=" u-underline">Bill Shorten</a>, said Abbott was lecturing world leaders. “I am not sure European leaders grappling with a scale and a dimension of a problem which we don’t have in Australia are necessarily going to benefit by Tony Abbott’s advice,” he told reporters on Wednesday.</p>
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<p class=" pullquote-paragraph">I am not sure Tony Abbott on a victory lap ... is exactly what Europe needs to solve its problems</p>
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<p>“I am not sure Tony Abbott on a victory lap giving a Margaret Thatcher lecture is exactly what Europe needs to solve its problems.”</p>
<p>Malcolm Turnbull, who ousted Abbott last month to take the prime ministership, downplayed Abbott’s speech.</p>
<p>“He has obviously had a remarkable career in public life, including two years as PM. We owe him a great debt for that,” Turnbull said on Wednesday. “His views are in hot demand everywhere in the world.”</p>
<p>The Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, rejected that, arguing that even Australians did not want to hear his views.</p>
<p>“It’s not a healthy thing for a recently deposed PM to be strutting the world stage and giving his view on foreign policy at a time when he was very clear that the Australian community didn’t support his view of many things, including his view of foreign policy and our approach towards what are some very complex international issues,” he told reporters.</p>
<p>“The only catastrophic error that Europe has made is giving Tony Abbott a platform to speak. To give a failed prime minister a platform to espouse his hateful and insular views of the world,” he said.</p>
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<p>Extension of Transfield Services contract to manage Australia’s offshore detention centres announced shortly before shareholders’ gathering</p><p>Protesters have disrupted Transfield Services’ annual general meeting, calling on the company to cut its ties to Australia’s offshore detention centres.</p><p>Two protesters from Divest from Detention network interrupted Transfield’s chair Diane Smith-Gander’s opening speech to present a letter signed by 844 asylum seekers and refugees on Manus Island and Nauru.<br /></p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/28/transfield-contract-to-operate-manus-and-nauru-extended-by-four-months">Continue reading...</a>
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<p>Protesters have disrupted Transfield Services’ annual general meeting, calling on the company to cut its ties to Australia’s offshore detention centres.</p>
<p>Two protesters from Divest from Detention network interrupted Transfield’s chair Diane Smith-Gander’s opening speech to present a letter signed by 844 asylum seekers and refugees on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/manus-island" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class=" u-underline">Manus Island</a> and Nauru.<br></p>
<p>The company announced shortly before the meeting that it has signed a four-month extension to its contract with the immigration department to manage Australia’s offshore detention centres on the islands.</p>
<p>Smith-Gardner asked the two protesters to leave, and they were escorted out by security guards. A police officer gave one of the protesters, Angela Mitropoulos, a move-on direction and she was ordered to leave the CBD.</p>
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<p>“We interrupted with the banner during Diane’s introduction, and she kept personally asking me to leave,” Mitropoulos said. “Then security dragged us out and the police gave me the move on order.<br></p>
<p>The messages from the group said: “We will continue to target Transfield Services, no matter what, until they stop running detention centres. We will continue to target any detention contractors, as we have done by throwing Transfield Services out of the Sydney Biennale and by chasing them from superannuation funds like Hesta.”</p>
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<p>Around 100 other protesters chanted outside the Sydney building the AGM was held in. A heavy police and security presence prevented a number of protesters attempting to enter the meeting. Inside the meeting no recording was allowed. <br></p>
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<p>Smith-Gander was re-elected to the board of Transfield.</p>
<p>The company announced shortly before the meeting that it has has signed a four-month extension to its contract with the immigration department to manage Australia’s offshore detention centres on Manus Island and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/nauru" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class=" u-underline">Nauru</a>.</p>
<p>The extension of Transfield’s contract for Manus and Nauru is a surprise because the company was named as the preferred tenderer for the next four-year contract with the immigration department.</p>
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<p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/27/transfield-given-15bn-over-three-years-to-manage-nauru-and-manus-centres" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">Transfield given $1.5bn over three years to manage Nauru and Manus centres</a> </p>
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<p><a href="http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20151028/pdf/432gg2r89nj7lg.pdf" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">A statement from the company said</a>: “The deed extends the company’s current contract for a further four month period allowing for the progressive transition to any new contract arrangements entered into by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection. Any such new contract is expected to take effect from March 2016.”</p>
<p><a href="http://anao.gov.au/Publications/Audits-in-Progress/2016/Autumn/Procurement-and-Contract-Management-of-Garrison-Support" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">The Australian National Audit Office</a> (ANAO) has announced a review into procurement and contract procedures on Nauru and Manus Island, due to be tabled in autumn next year. </p>
<p>The No Business in Abuse lobby group – <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/21/transfield-could-face-legal-action-over-naura-and-manus-abuses-group-warns" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">which launched in partnership with GetUp in September</a> – has been working to to persuade investors to put pressure on Transfield over its role managing Australia’s asylum seeker processing centres on Nauru and Manus Island by divesting, and encouraging local businesses not to contract with the company.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/27/transfield-given-15bn-over-three-years-to-manage-nauru-and-manus-centres" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">On Tuesday it released a report</a> that was highly critical of the company’s involvement with the offshore detention regime. </p>
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<p>Responding to calls for greater access to the country, David Adeang says the Australian media approaches reporting on Nauru ‘with an air of racial superiority’</p><p>The Nauru government has launched an attack on Australian journalists, accusing them of approaching reporting in the country with “an air of racial superiority”.</p><p>David Adeang, the Nauru justice minister, was responding to calls for greater access to the country. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/chris-kenny-first-foreign-news-reporter-in-18-months-granted-nauru-visa">Nauru allowed Chris Kenny, </a> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/chris-kenny-first-foreign-news-reporter-in-18-months-granted-nauru-visa">associate editor of the Australian</a><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/chris-kenny-first-foreign-news-reporter-in-18-months-granted-nauru-visa">, on to the island earlier this month</a>, the first visit by a foreign reporter for 18 months. Kenny acknowledged his support for offshore detention may have helped secure his visit.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/29/nauru-justice-minister-attacks-arrogant-australian-journalists">Continue reading...</a>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/nauru" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class=" u-underline">Nauru</a> government has launched an attack on Australian journalists, accusing them of approaching reporting in the country with “an air of racial superiority”.</p>
<p>David Adeang, the Nauru justice minister, was responding to calls for greater access to the country. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/chris-kenny-first-foreign-news-reporter-in-18-months-granted-nauru-visa" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">Nauru allowed Chris Kenny, </a> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/chris-kenny-first-foreign-news-reporter-in-18-months-granted-nauru-visa" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">associate editor of the Australian</a><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/chris-kenny-first-foreign-news-reporter-in-18-months-granted-nauru-visa" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">, on to the island earlier this month</a>, the first visit by a foreign reporter for 18 months. Kenny acknowledged his support for offshore detention may have helped secure his visit.</p>
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<p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/28/this-is-abyans-story-and-it-is-australias-story" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">This is Abyan's story, and it is Australia's story</a> </p>
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<p>“Many <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/australia-media" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class=" u-underline">Australian media</a> outlets and journalists have no respect for Nauru or our culture or people,” Adeang said.</p>
<p>“Nauru has no obligation to answer to Australian media.</p>
<p>“The Australian media approaches us with great arrogance and an air of racial superiority, which is highly offensive to us.<br> <br>“They do not show us the respect of a sovereign nation and in return we have little respect for them.”</p>
<p>Adeang accused journalists of failing to question the claims of “refugee advocates and Australian lawyers”.</p>
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<p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/23/nauru-police-raids-on-save-the-children-sparked-by-detention-centres-manager" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">Nauru police raids on Save the Children sparked by detention centre's manager</a> </p>
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<p>“The truth is that despite the difficulties many refugees face and the lack of certainty they feel about the future – and we acknowledge that – Nauru is safe, refugees are not being raped, they have freedom, many are happy and making the best of their situation, and life on Nauru is peaceful with locals and refugees living, in the main, harmoniously.<br> <br>“But this truth doesn’t suit the activist journalists. They need to paint a different picture to justify their political agendas and their own lack of fact-checking and poor journalism.”</p>
<p>On Wednesday Peter Dutton, the immigration minister, said that Abyan, the refugee who is pregnant after an alleged rape on Nauru, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/28/abyan-pregnant-refugee-on-nauru-will-return-to-australia-for-medical-treatment" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">would return to Australia for medical treatment</a>.</p>
<p>On the same day, the annual general meeting in Sydney of Transfield Services, which manages Australia’s offshore detention centres on Manus and Nauru, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/28/transfield-contract-to-operate-manus-and-nauru-extended-by-four-months" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">was disrupted by protesters</a> opposing the company’s work in the centres.</p>
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<p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/chris-kenny-first-foreign-news-reporter-in-18-months-granted-nauru-visa" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">Chris Kenny the first foreign news reporter in 18 months to be granted Nauru visa</a> </p>
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<p>Guardian Australia has been repeatedly refused access to the island. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/23/nauru-police-raids-on-save-the-children-sparked-by-detention-centres-manager" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">Nauru police have twice raided the offices of Save the Children at the Nauru detention centre</a> after the government was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/08/nauru-lets-local-journalists-into-centre-but-keeps-8000-fee-for-foreigners" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">angered by a report in Guardian Australia quoting an email from the operations manager at the centre</a>.</p>
<p>Save the Children said there was no evidence the leaked email had come from any of their staff.</p>
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<p>Peter Dutton, the immigration minister, says woman who had requested abortion after alleged rape will come back to Australia</p><p>Abyan, the pregnant refugee who was brought to Australia for an abortion and then controversially flown back to Nauru, is to return to Australia for medical treatment.</p><p>The woman, originally from Somalia, alleges that she was raped on Nauru. She will return to Australia for medical advice on seeking an abortion, and also for mental health support, the Australian immigration minister, Peter Dutton, announced on Wednesday.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/28/abyan-pregnant-refugee-on-nauru-will-return-to-australia-for-medical-treatment">Continue reading...</a>
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<p>Abyan, the pregnant refugee who was brought to Australia for an abortion and then controversially flown back to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/nauru" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class=" u-underline">Nauru</a>, is to return to Australia for medical treatment.</p>
<p>The woman, originally from Somalia, alleges that she was raped on Nauru. She will return to Australia for medical advice on seeking an abortion, and also for mental health support, the Australian immigration minister, Peter Dutton, announced on Wednesday.</p>
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<p>The 23-year old was brought to Australia for an abortion earlier this month, but was returned to Nauru less than a week later. She is nearly 15 weeks’ pregnant.</p>
<p>Dutton insisted earlier this month that she changed her mind, a claim he reiterated on Wednesday. Both <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/19/somali-refugee-flown-out-australia-denies-saying-she-declined-termination" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">the young woman and her Australian lawyers</a> deny that claim.</p>
<p>Since returning to Nauru, the refugee has told the Australian newspaper that she still wants an abortion, but does not wish to return to Australia.</p>
<p>Dutton said that she has now changed her mind about returning to Australia.</p>
<p>“She will travel to Australia and will seek some expert assistance from medical staff in Australia, and that’s as it should be, and we’ve said all along we would do what was in the best interest of this particularly lady,” Dutton told Sky News on Wednesday. </p>
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<p>“The medical experts have spoken with the lady, and she’s accepted the advice she should come to Australia, not only to speak to a doctor in terms of the termination, but also to seek mental health services.”<br></p>
<p>The immigration minister said that the discussions over bringing Abyan to Australia have been ongoing for a number of days, though he would not be drawn as to when she would leave Nauru.<br></p>
<p>“I don’t want this to be some sort of media spectacle,” he said. “It’s important that we respect her privacy.”</p>
<p>Labor leader Bill Shorten called for an assurance that the young woman’s best interests would be prioritised.</p>
<p>“This is a distressing and complex case and Abyan’s privacy must be respected. Labor is deeply concerned that the Liberal government has mismanaged this case and the impact that this has had on this young woman,” he said.</p>
<p>The Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young reiterated her call for better oversight of the offshore detention system. “By appointing an independent advocate, we can be confident that there will always be someone with Abyan who is acting in her best<br>interests,” she said.</p>
<p>“This young woman asked us for help in putting her life back together and we failed her,” she said. </p>
<p>The announcement comes shortly after the United Nations urged the government to find a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/28/united-nations-calls-nauru-australia-resolve-abyan-case-urgently" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">“decent option” for Abyan</a> (not her real name).</p>
<p>“Abyan is in a very fragile mental and physical condition and is deeply traumatised by her experiences since the day of the alleged rape,” <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16657&LangID=E" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN office of the high commissioner for human rights, said</a>.</p>
<p>“She has refused to give information to the Nauru police about her attacker because she is understandably afraid of reprisals. She does not feel safe, given that her alleged attacker lives on Nauru, which is a very small island.”</p>
<p>Accessing an abortion on Nauru is highly restricted, requiring the consent of both the mother and the father before the procedure can be carried out. Papua New Guinea, where asylum seekers on Nauru are often sent for medical treatment, prohibits abortions after 14 weeks.</p>
<p>Ian Rintoul from the Refugee Action Coalition, who has been in regular contact with Abyan, said news of her imminent move back to Australia was “welcome” but overdue.</p>
<p>“Peter Dutton and this government have put her through three weeks of unnecessary mental anguish. This decision should have been made at the end of August.”</p>
<p>Rintoul warned Abyan - who fled Somalia in 2007 and after her family was killed in a rocket attack - was deeply affected by the events of recent months, and her recovery from the trauma of her assault would be significantly longer than simply the termination procedure.</p>
<p>“The treatment of Abyan is emblematic of the treatment of refugee and asylum seekers in general on Nauru,” he said.</p>
<p>“The action that the government has taken now is because of significant public pressure that has shone a light on her situation. But the way they have treated Abyan is the way all asylum seekers and refugees in offshore processing are treated, and the government surrounds their actions with secrecy, a total lack of transparency and accountability, so the public cannot know.”</p>
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<p>Immigration minister says Australia will not ‘water down’ policies despite Amnesty International claims officials engaged in people smuggling </p><p>The federal government will not be “bullied” into watering down its hardline border protection policies by advocates such as Amnesty International, the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, said, after the human rights group criticised border force staff for paying people smugglers to turn asylum boats around.</p><p>Amnesty International investigated claims from May this year that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/15/australia-and-people-smuggler-payment-claims-what-we-know-so-far">Australian government officials paid people smugglers</a> $45,000 (US$32,000) to return the vessel and the 65 asylum seekers aboard it to Rote Island in Indonesia.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/29/coalition-will-not-be-bullied-on-border-protection-says-peter-dutton">Continue reading...</a>
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<p>The federal government will not be “bullied” into watering down its hardline border protection policies by advocates such as <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/amnesty-international" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class=" u-underline">Amnesty International</a>, the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, said, after the human rights group criticised border force staff for paying people smugglers to turn asylum boats around.</p>
<p>Amnesty International investigated claims from May this year that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/15/australia-and-people-smuggler-payment-claims-what-we-know-so-far" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">Australian government officials paid people smugglers</a> $45,000 (US$32,000) to return the vessel and the 65 asylum seekers aboard it to Rote Island in Indonesia.</p>
<p>It found that “all of the available evidence points to Australian officials having committed a transnational crime”, and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/29/australian-officials-paid-asylum-seeker-boat-crew-amnesty-investigation-alleges" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">that officials effectively engaged in people smuggling</a>.</p>
<p>“People smuggling is a crime usually associated with private individuals, not governments – but here we have allegations that Australian officials are not just involved, but directing operations,” an Amnesty UK researcher, Anna Shea, said. “When it comes to its treatment of those seeking asylum, Australia is becoming a lawless state.”</p>
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<p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/29/australian-officials-paid-asylum-seeker-boat-crew-amnesty-investigation-alleges" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">Australian officials paid asylum seeker boat crew, Amnesty investigation alleges</a> </p>
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<p>Dutton was undeterred by the criticism, vowing to stick by the policy of turning back asylum seeker boats. <br tabindex="-1"></p>
<p>“Amnesty International and others don’t like Operation Sovereign Borders and the fact that we’ve stopped the boats,” Dutton told Macquarie Radio on Thursday. “We’re not going to be bullied into some watering down of that.”</p>
<p>Dutton said Amnesty International had a history of criticising the Coalition’s border protection policies, stretching as far back as the Howard era.<br></p>
<p>“They don’t like Operation Sovereign Borders, they try to attack border force staff, naval staff, and I think it’s a disgrace,” he said. “I think at the end you can take the word of people smugglers, or you can take the word of our staff at Australian border force.”</p>
<p>Dutton said that Operation Sovereign Borders will remain under Malcolm Turnbull, who ousted Tony Abbott in a leadership spill last month.<br></p>
<p>“We’re not going to take a backwards step,” he said. “We’re not going to water down our policies.”</p>
<p>Labor’s decision to reverse elements of the Coalition’s border protection policies had led to a greater number of deaths at sea.</p>
<p>“We’re not going back to those crazy days.” <br></p>
<p>The Greens have vowed to pursue the matter of payments to people smugglers in a Senate inquiry.</p>
<p>“This report contains evidence that contradicts an official submission from the government to this Senate inquiry,” the Greens immigration spokeswoman, Sarah Hanson-Young, said. “If they are found to have misled the Senate there will be serious consequences.”</p>
<p>The Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, said: “This report is serious and the government can’t just sweep it under the carpet or attack the messenger like it’s done so many times in the past on this issue.</p>
<p>“There has been far too much secrecy in this area ever since the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/coalition" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class=" u-underline">Coalition</a> came to power, and evidence of criminal activity on the high seas cannot be ignored.”</p>
<p>The foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, rejected the Amnesty report without directly rejecting the claims of payment.</p>
<p>“Australian officials are acting in accordance with Australian domestic law and in accordance with Australia’s international obligations,” she said on Thursday.</p>
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<p>All of the available evidence points to a transnational crime, says Amnesty International, but immigration minister attacks report as ‘slur’ </p><p>Australian government officials may have engaged in people smuggling, by allegedly paying the crew of an asylum seeker boat to return its passengers to Indonesia, an <a href="http://www.amnesty.org.au/">Amnesty International</a> investigation has found.</p><p>In May this year, the 65 passengers and six crew of an asylum seeker boat bound for New Zealand said they were intercepted by an Australian naval ship and an Australian Border Force vessel in international waters.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/29/australian-officials-paid-asylum-seeker-boat-crew-amnesty-investigation-alleges">Continue reading...</a>
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<p>Australian government officials may have engaged in people smuggling, by allegedly paying the crew of an asylum seeker boat to return its passengers to Indonesia, an <a href="http://www.amnesty.org.au/" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">Amnesty International</a> investigation has found.</p>
<p>In May this year, the 65 passengers and six crew of an asylum seeker boat bound for New Zealand said they were intercepted by an Australian naval ship and an Australian Border Force vessel in international waters.</p>
<p>Australian <a href="http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/australian-officials-paid-people-smugglers-to-turn-back-to-indonesia-says-police-chief-20150609-ghk63g.html" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">government officials on board reportedly paid the crew</a> of the vessel $32,000 – in US $100 bills – and instructed them to return the asylum seekers to Indonesia, directing them to Rote Island.</p>
<p>After interviewing all 65 passengers who were on board the ship, as well as the six crew and Indonesian officials, the Amnesty report press release concluded “all of the available evidence points to Australian officials having committed a transnational crime”.</p>
<p>On Thursday the immigration minister Peter Dutton said the government had already rejected the report’s allegations.<br></p>
<p>“To suggest otherwise, as Amnesty has done, is to cast a slur on the men and women of the Australian Border Force and Australian Defence Force.” </p>
<p>Anna Shea, a researcher on refugee and migrant rights with Amnesty UK, said evidence showed government officials were allegedly paying a boat crew, providing fuel and materiel, and giving instructions on where the boat should be sailed.<br></p>
<p>“People smuggling is a crime usually associated with private individuals, not governments – but here we have allegations that Australian officials are not just involved, but directing operations.</p>
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<p class=" pullquote-paragraph">When it comes to its treatment of those seeking asylum, Australia is becoming a lawless state</p>
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<cite class=" pullquote-cite">Anna Shea, Amnesty researcher</cite>
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<p>“When it comes to its treatment of those seeking asylum, Australia is becoming a lawless state.”<br></p>
<p>Australian officials reportedly intercepted the asylum seeker boat twice, on 17 May and 22 May.</p>
<p>Those on board said the ship was well-equipped and that no distress signal was sent at any time. The crew said the boat never entered Australian waters and had enough food and fuel on board to reach New Zealand.</p>
<p>In the second interdiction, the majority of asylum seekers boarded the Australian Border Force ship after allegedly being told they could bathe on board.</p>
<p>Once on board, however, they said they were held in cells for several days, before they were transferred to two smaller boats and instructed to sail for the island of Rote. One boat ran out of fuel, forcing all of its passengers onto the other. That boat foundered on a reef at Landu Island, near Rote, from where locals rescued the passengers.</p>
<p>On the original boat, the six crew claimed Australian officials gave them $32,000 – two of the men received $6,000, four $5,000 – in exchange for the crew agreeing to pilot the boat back to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/indonesia" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class=" u-underline">Indonesia</a>.</p>
<p>One asylum seeker told Amnesty he allegedly witnessed a transaction between Australian officials and the ship’s captain in the kitchen of the boat, and saw the captain put a white envelope in his shorts pocket. </p>
<p>Shea told the Guardian the 62 passengers from the vessel were interviewed, as a group, on three separate occasions in Indonesian immigration detention in Kupang in West Timor, where they are currently being held.</p>
<p>The six crew, who are in police custody on Rote Island, were interviewed separately to the passengers.<br></p>
<p>“What was really remarkable was the degree of correlation and consistency in the testimony of the asylum seekers and the crew, who were held in different locations, and who were not in communication,” Shea said.</p>
<p>Indonesian police have reported they found $32,000 is US $100 bills on the crew. Amnesty researchers photographed the money confiscated.</p>
<p>After initially refusing to comment on the allegations, citing secrecy over “on-water matters”, the Australian government denied making payments to people smugglers, and said Australian officials acted to save life at sea.</p>
<p>Questioned about the allegation, the then <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/12/tony-abbott-refuses-to-rule-out-paying-people-smugglers-to-turn-back-boats" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">prime minister Tony Abbott</a> said: “There’s really only one thing to say here and that is that we have stopped the boats.”</p>
<p>The boat turnback is the subject of a <a href="http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Legal_and_Constitutional_Affairs/Payments_for_turn_backs/Submissions" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">Senate inquiry</a>, due to report in January next year. In its submission, Operation Sovereign Borders’ joint action taskforce stated the asylum seeker vessel was observed “in poor weather conditions, which were rapidly deteriorating”.</p>
<p>“The master of the vessel indicated they were experiencing difficulty and requested assistance. Border Protection Command assets rendered immediate assistance in accordance with our international safety at [sic] life at sea obligations and assisted the safe return of the people to Indonesia,” <a href="http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Legal_and_Constitutional_Affairs/Payments_for_turn_backs/Submissions" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">Major General Andrew Bottrell</a> wrote to the inquiry.</p>
<p>“I believe our actions to assist this vessel were necessary to preserve the safety of life of those on board. The officers on board the Border Protection Command vessels operated in dangerous sea conditions to render assistance to the distressed vessel.”</p>
<p>The Department of Immigration and Border Protection has consistently maintained all elements of Operation Sovereign Borders were “conducted consistent with Australian domestic law and Australia’s obligations under international law”.</p>
<p>The Indonesian government has said it believes Australia paid the ship’s crew.</p>
<p>“We asked for clarification and for further information on this issue,” a foreign ministry spokesman, Arrmanatha Nasir, said. “We did not receive this, so in that context we cannot be blamed for believing that there was an illicit payment.”</p>
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<p>The Amnesty report also investigated an incident in July where a second payment to crew may have been made.</p>
<p>Asylum seekers on board that boat reported that after being interdicted by Australian vessels and put onto a new boat, the crew were in possession of two new bags, which they were warned repeatedly not to open.</p>
<p>That new boat, piloted by the crew under instruction from Australia, was also returned to Rote.</p>
<p>The Guardian revealed in March <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/mar/05/orange-lifeboats-used-to-return-asylum-seekers-to-be-replaced-by-fishing-boats" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">Australia has a multimillion-dollar contract</a> with a Vietnamese ship-builder to manufacture fishing boat-style vessels to be used to return asylum seekers to their countries of departure, usually Indonesia or Sri Lanka. </p>
<p>Amnesty argues Australia’s boat turnback policy is a breach of the country’s non-refoulement obligations under the Refugees Convention, which requires Australia not to return a refugee to a place where their life or liberty could be threatened.</p>
<p>In London on Tuesday, Abbott – since deposed as prime minister – said Europe would be fundamentally weakened by the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/28/tony-abbott-urges-europe-to-adopt-australian-border-policies" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">“misguided altruism”</a> of failing to stop the flow of migrants across its borders.</p>
<p>“The imperative to ‘love your neighbour as you love yourself’ is at the heart of every Western polity ... it’s what makes us decent and humane countries as well as prosperous ones. But – right now – this wholesome instinct is leading much of Europe into catastrophic error.”</p>
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Australian officials paid asylum seeker boat crew, Amnesty investigation alleges
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<p>The private details of a refugee who asked for an abortion after an alleged rape on Nauru have thrown into sharp focus divisions over Australia’s hardline detention regime</p><p>For all the unwelcome intrusion into her private life, for all the angry public debate, for all the wasted expense and the time spent just waiting: nothing, for Abyan, has changed.<br /></p><p>She is still on Nauru, still scarred by the trauma of an alleged rape, and still bearing a pregnancy she doesn’t want.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/28/this-is-abyans-story-and-it-is-australias-story">Continue reading...</a>
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<p>For all the unwelcome intrusion into her private life, for all the angry public debate, for all the wasted expense and the time spent just waiting: nothing, for Abyan, has changed.<br></p>
<p>She is still on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/nauru" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class=" u-underline">Nauru</a>, still scarred by the trauma of an alleged rape, and still bearing a pregnancy she doesn’t want.</p>
<p>This month, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/16/australia-secretly-flies-pregnant-asylum-seeker-back-to-nauru-before-hearing" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">the 23-year-old Somali refugee was flown to Australia for a termination she had begged for weeks for</a>, only to be secretly spirited back on a private charter flight without the operation when she asked for more time, for counselling, and for an explanation of the procedure.</p>
<p>Her private circumstance has become the stuff of newspaper headlines, her image the front page picture of some newspapers, her distress the political fodder of parliament.</p>
<p>She is unwell, deeply traumatised, and desperately concerned for her future. </p>
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<p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/28/united-nations-calls-nauru-australia-resolve-abyan-case-urgently" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">United Nations calls on Nauru and Australia to resolve Abyan case urgently</a> </p>
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<p>But Abyan’s tortuous case has come to represent more than her own unhappy circumstance.</p>
<p>While the former prime minister, Tony Abbott, was<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/28/tony-abbott-urges-europe-to-adopt-australian-border-policies" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline"> only too eager to bang the drum for the Australian government’s hardline stand </a>in his Margaret Thatcher lecture on Wednesday, Abyan’s story betrays unease in Canberra and elsewhere on the mainland. Questions have been asked in parliament. Campaigners have demonstrated on her behalf. The United Nations in Geneva <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/28/united-nations-calls-nauru-australia-resolve-abyan-case-urgently" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">urged Nauru and Australia to find “a decent option” for the “deeply traumatised” woman</a>. </p>
<p>On Wednesday afternoon, Peter Dutton, the Australian immigration minister, announced that Abyan would <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/28/abyan-pregnant-refugee-on-nauru-will-return-to-australia-for-medical-treatment" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">return to Australia for medical treatment</a>.</p>
<p>Abyan’s situation has become emblematic of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/21/greens-suggest-nauru-expert-phillip-moss-as-advocate-for-refugee-abyan" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">Australia’s serious questioning </a>of a policy of sending asylum seekers to its tiny, impoverished client state in the middle of the Pacific. She has become the symbol of the calculated cruelty, of the contradictions and of the unsustainability of Australia’s $3bn offshore detention regime.</p>
<p>Abyan (not her real name) fled her home in Somalia in 2007. She was 15, and her country was caught in a brutal civil conflict between the government the Islamist terrorist network al-Shabaab. She survived the rocket attack which struck her home and killed her family. She fled.</p>
<p>Her journey was ad hoc and inchoate. Eventually she found a people-smuggling network that could get her to south-east Asia and, from there, a place on board a boat to Australia.</p>
<p>She arrived in Australia, on Christmas Island, on 21 October 2013. She was taken to Nauru two days later.</p>
<p>A little more than a year later, in November 2014, Nauruan authorities determined she was officially a refugee: that is, she has a <a href="http://www.unhcr.org/3b66c2aa10.html" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">well-founded fear of persecution</a> in her home country and could not be returned there.</p>
<p>She was moved into accommodation “in the community”, outside the detention centre on Nauru. But life in the community, while better than detention, is hard. Abyan is alone. She is poor, food is expensive and the market a long way from where she lives. And she is fearful.</p>
<p>On 18 July this year, Abyan says she was raped by an unknown man.</p>
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<p class=" pullquote-paragraph">Abyan does not want a baby born of her assault and is growing increasingly anxious</p>
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<p>She told caseworkers and fellow refugees what happened to her. But she has not filed a report with police over the assault, saying she fears retribution from her assailant or others.</p>
<p>Now doctors say she is approaching 15 weeks’ pregnant. She does not want a baby born of her assault and she is growing increasingly anxious about having the termination she first requested nearly two months ago.</p>
<p>Nauru is a deeply conservative, Christian country. Restrictive abortion laws there mean she cannot have a termination in that country.</p>
<p>Nor can she have it in Papua New Guinea, the other Pacific country where Australia runs an “offshore detention centre”.</p>
<p>There is nowhere in Australia’s “offshore detention” network that can provide Abyan the medical service she has asked for. Only Australia remains.</p>
<p>Abyan first asked for a termination on 1 September. But it was more than five weeks before she was brought to Australia on a scheduled commercial flight on 11 October.</p>
<p>What happened to Abyan in Australia is fiercely contested.</p>
<h2>Abyan, the minister and the reporter</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/peter-dutton" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class=" u-underline">Peter Dutton</a>, the Australian immigration minister, has said Abyan was afforded extensive medical care while in Australia but that after extensive consultation she decided she did not want to terminate her pregnancy.<br></p>
<p>“We’re talking about four or five days of medical consultations and all through that period we had interpreters present, mental health nurses, GPs, doctors ... At the end of it the advice to us was that she had decided against the abortion,” Dutton said.</p>
<p>Abyan says that is untrue.<br></p>
<p>“I was raped on Nauru,” she said in a written statement given to the Guardian. “I have been very sick. I have never said that I did not want a termination. I never saw a doctor. I saw a nurse at the clinic but there was no counselling.</p>
<p>“I saw a nurse at Villawood but there was no interpreter.”</p>
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<p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/26/decline-in-press-freedom-prevents-reporters-from-joining-kenny-on-nauru" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">Decline in press freedom prevents reporters from joining Kenny on Nauru | Paul Farrell</a> </p>
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<p>Abyan has maintained in interviews since that she wants to terminate her pregnancy. (Even those interviews have proven controversial: foreign journalists are, in effect, banned from Nauru. The only reporter allowed on the island in the past 18 months has been Chris Kenny, from the government-allied Australian newspaper, who flew to Nauru last week. He has been accused by some advocates of harassing Abyan, and arriving at her accommodation in the company of police. He denies this. He is the former chief-of-staff of the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and an avowed “strong supporter” of offshore detention, and acknowledged this support may have helped him get access.)</p>
<p>Inside Canberra’s byzantine bureaucracy, it was ruled Abyan had chosen not to have the termination.</p>
<p>Dutton had previously railed against refugees exercising their rights in courts, seeking injunctions against their removals to offshore detention: “<a href="http://www.minister.border.gov.au/peterdutton/2015/Pages/ray-hadley-15102015.aspx" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">The racket that’s been going on here</a> is that people at the margins come to Australia from Nauru, the government’s then injuncted, we can’t send them back to Nauru,” Dutton said that week.</p>
<p>Anxious to avoid a court order that would keep Abyan in Australia, the government chartered a private jet, at a cost of more than $100,000, to secretly fly her back to Nauru via the Solomon Islands.</p>
<p>Beyond the cost, its circumstance was even more controversial. Abyan was moved, against her will, before she could tell refugee advocates or her lawyers what was happening.<br></p>
<p>A series of frantic phone calls bounced around Australia on Friday 16 October between advocates and lawyers and friends of Abyan. She was not in the Villawood detention centre any more, and she could not be contacted. The government would not say where she was being held.</p>
<p>The first Abyan’s lawyers knew of her location was when they appeared in the federal court that afternoon seeking an order that she not be removed from the country. They were told by lawyers for the government she had already left Australian soil.</p>
<p>Abyan was in the air, and out of the court’s jurisdiction. She landed in Nauru that night. </p>
<p>Since being back on the island, Abyan has fallen ill again, according to those in contact with her. She remains adamant that she wants to terminate her pregnancy, a pregnancy she never wanted, that was forced on her by violence.</p>
<h2>Riches to poverty</h2>
<p>Australia’s deal with Nauru is a caustic realpolitik, a reflection of Australia’s Melian attitude to its weaker Pacific neighbours, and the power of its regional economic strength. </p>
<p>Nauru is a once-wealthy country now poor, a riches-to-rags story of resource curse.</p>
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<p>The island was rich once in guano, bird manure. For decades in the 20th century, massive deposits of the valuable phosphate were mined almost to exhaustion for huge profits.</p>
<p>In the years after Nauru gained its independence in 1968, the tiny island was one of the richest places on Earth. But the days of plenty are historical ones.</p>
<p>The phosphate is almost all gone, and the billions it brought in have been siphoned off by a succession of corrupt, wasteful governments.</p>
<p>A series of scandals, and almost-comically disastrous financial mismanagement (including funding a London musical based on the life of Leonardo da Vinci) bankrupted the country. Nauru’s central bank went broke, its real estate assets in other countries were taken and sold, its airlines’ planes seized.</p>
<p>Nauru spent years in desperate penury. The outpost nation became a haven for money-laundering – a billion dollars of Russian mafia money is estimated to have been washed through the country – and its officials reduced to selling passports.</p>
<p>Nauru even used its membership of the UN general assembly as a money-making exercise, accepting tens of millions of dollars in exchange for “recognising” countries, such as Russian-backed breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia.</p>
<p>Its government was debased, but it was Nauru’s people who suffered. </p>
<p>Unemployment hit <a href="https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NSGvCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT2822&lpg=PT2822&dq=nauru+90+percent+unemployment&source=bl&ots=DPcMP6o89A&sig=7D4r2HrMk9ubT9_GmVbkrmuszRg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEMQ6AEwB2oVChMIhrP56-7fyAIVxKymCh0mNwAf#v=onepage&q=nauru%2090%20percent%20unemployment&f=false" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">90%</a>, the <a href="http://www.icde.org/projects/regulatory_frameworks_for_distance_education/country_profiles/nauru/education_system/" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">school system collapsed</a> almost entirely, cruelling the futures of a generation. Mining has left much of Nauru’s tiny landmass hollowed out and unusable, and its people have been left unwell – they suffer extreme levels of diabetes, heart disease and obesity. </p>
<p>Nauru’s economy has slowly improved. But no industry has emerged to replace mining.</p>
<p>The country remains almost wholly dependent on aid, and that, now, comes with strings attached, conditions that demonstrate the old problems are not entirely resolved.<br></p>
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<p class=" pullquote-paragraph">On Nauru there are few places to run, and certainly nowhere to hide</p>
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<p>Earlier this year, New Zealand suspended all aid to Nauru’s justice sector because of what it described as a “diminishing rule of law”, citing among other failures, the seizure of an opposition MP’s passport, and the sacking of the country’s judiciary.</p>
<p>The Nauru government almost “<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-26/nauru-government-runs-out-of-money/5772422" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">ran out of money</a>” as recently as last year. <br></p>
<p>So Australia’s decision in 2012 to reopen its detention centre on Nauru – and the influx of jobs and money that that decision represented – was gratefully welcomed (the first iteration of Australia’s detention centre ran between 2001 and 2007, including at one stage housing just two refugees).</p>
<p>The three years since the centre was reopened (and substantially extended) has re-established Australia as Nauru’s principal and pre-eminent benefactor, and Nauru as Australia’s supine subordinate.<br></p>
<p>Today Australian direct aid makes up about <a href="http://dfat.gov.au/geo/nauru/development-assistance/Pages/development-assistance-in-nauru.aspx" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">15% of the country’s domestic economy</a>, and the Australian-run immigration detention centre is the second-largest employer on the island, after the Nauruan government.<br></p>
<p>Nauru is a client state in every sense, kept functioning, just, by its wealthy neighbour.</p>
<p>But its dependence on Australian largesse makes its government entirely beholden to its benefactor’s interests, even at the expense of its own people.<br></p>
<p>And Australia’s generosity does not come without quid pro quo.</p>
<p>The 1,000-odd asylum seekers and refugees imposed upon Nauru by Australia represent more than 10% of the entire country. Per capita, Nauru is now the <a href="http://unhcr.org/556725e69.html" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">third-highest refugee-hosting country in the world</a>, because of Australia’s forced transfer.</p>
<p>It is an ill-disguised secret that significant sections of the Nauruan community resent the presence of refugees within its formerly monocultural Islander society.</p>
<p>auru is barely more than 20 sq km and has a population of fewer than 10,000. There are few places to run, and certainly nowhere to hide.</p>
<p>Young men, particularly the teenage boys who are on Nauru without parents, have been targeted for violence, especially if they are out at night.</p>
<p>Women, like Abyan, fear sexual predators outside and inside the camp. Between September 2012 and April 2015, 33 sexual assault incidents were logged by camp management, including nine judged critical or major. And that figure is believed to be significantly under-reported. (Abyan’s was not reported.)</p>
<p>But Abyan’s case – among others – has highlighted the systemic, calculated cruelties which benight Australia’s offshore detention regime, and given rise to new debate over the policies’ fairness, and morality.<br></p>
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<p>The policy is posited by the Australian government as a deterrent, a disincentive for asylum seekers searching for a new country to pay people smugglers to board boats bound for Australia.</p>
<p>It is credited in large part with “stopping the boats” arriving in Australian waters, while they still continue in large numbers to be piloted around the waters of south-east Asia and Europe.</p>
<p>Australia’s prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, concedes the policies are “<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-01/turnbull-responds-to-nauru-rape-allegations/6818620" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">harsh</a>” and “<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/our-asylum-seeker-policy-is-cruel-malcolm-turnbull-20130819-2s7d7.html" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">cruel</a>” but says they are justified in the circumstances because they deter others from trying to make similar journeys.</p>
<p>Critics of the policies – a noisy, sizeable, and growing minority – argue offshore processing ignores the human cost of a detention regime designed to be brutal in order to deter others. <br></p>
<p>Successive <a href="http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Regional_processing_Nauru/Regional_processing_Nauru/Final_Report" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">parliamentary inquiries</a> and the <a href="https://www.border.gov.au/ReportsandPublications/Documents/reviews-and-inquiries/review-conditions-circumstances-nauru.pdf" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">government’s own investigations</a> have found allegations of systemic sexual abuse of women and children, violence against men and boys, inadequate medical care and neglect on Nauru.</p>
<p>Instances of attempted suicide and self-harm are common. Caseworkers report children constantly <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2014/s4058402.htm" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">banging their heads against walls</a> in frustration. Dozens of people have sewn their lips together. Rape victims refuse food for days and weeks.</p>
<h2>Nothing permanent</h2>
<p>Australia’s other offshore detention centre, on PNG’s <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/manus-island" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">Manus Island</a>, which now houses only men, is even more violent. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/reza-barati" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">One asylum seeker was killed</a> when more than a dozen guards reportedly beat him to death during riots last year, while others have been shot, <a href="https://spdb.ohchr.org/hrdb/28th/public_-_ua_australia_17.11.14_(4.2014)_pro.pdf" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">tied up and tortured</a>. And one died from a lack of medical intervention after a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/dec/09/hamid-kehazaei-death-visa-delays-stalled-transfer-asylum-seeker" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">minor leg wound turned septic</a>.<br></p>
<p>But there is massive financial imposition to Australia’s policies, too.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.ncoa.gov.au/report/appendix-vol-2/10-14-illegal-maritime-arrival-costs.html" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">government’s auditor says</a> it costs more than $400,000 a year to house a single person in offshore detention, nearly double the figure for detention within Australia, and 10 times the cost to taxpayer of an asylum seeker or refugee living in the Australian community on a bridging visa.<br></p>
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<p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/20/theres-no-decency-in-how-australia-has-treated-abyan-no-matter-what-the-truth-is" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">There's no decency in how Australia has treated Abyan. No matter what the truth is | Richard Ackland</a> </p>
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<p>The total cost of Australia’s offshore detention regime is upwards of $3bn a year. It is more than five times the budget for all of the UNHCR’s operations across south-east Asia, but handles <a href="https://www.border.gov.au/ReportsandPublications/Documents/statistics/immigration-detention-statistics-30-Sept-2015.pdf" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">just 2,000 people</a>.</p>
<p>Australia has also paid Cambodia <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/31/cambodia-has-no-plans-to-take-more-nauru-refugees-in-55m-australia-deal" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">more than $55m</a> so far under a “regional resettlement program” that seeks to relocate refugees to a third country permanently. So far that country has taken five people.</p>
<p>But even beyond the human costs and the financial imposition, Nauru, by the concession of its own and the Australian government, can never be a solution. <br></p>
<p>The development of international refugee law has, for decades, identified as a priority the establishment of <a href="http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646cf8.html" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline">“durable solutions”</a> for those displaced from their homelands: a long-term settlement plan that won’t enforce on them another move.</p>
<p>Nauru will not offer permanent resettlement to refugees. At this point, none will be allowed to stay in the country any longer than 10 years.</p>
<p>Then they will again be looking for a new country in which to restart already-interrupted lives.</p>
<p>For Abyan, finding a new home again in a decade, after nearly a decade of displacement already, is beyond contemplation.</p>
<p>She is unwell again and troubled too greatly by her immediate future.</p>
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This is Abyan's story, and it is Australia's story
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