As the Government prepares to send 267 asylum seekers — including 37 babies born in Australia, children attending local schools and women who have been abused in offshore detention — back to Nauru, the people of Australia are starting to stand up.
Rallies have been held around the country.
Medical professionals, teachers, refugee advocates, churches, humanitarian organisations and no less than five state leaders have called for a more compassionate solution.
And still, Malcolm Turnbull and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton are refusing to listen.
This is a video message from the people of Australia to our Prime Minister, urging him to #LetThemStay.
Thanks to GetUp! for letting us share their video. You can read the stories of these kids and sign their petition here.
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What of the beautiful babies forgotten in refugee camps because their parents didn't have money.
Don't they matter?
I am a person from Australia and you don speak to me thanks - so please don't suggest you do. I think by far the greater humanity is to make sure that human trafficking does not start again, resulting in thousands of deaths at sea. Why is it so hard to understand.
Because it's an irrelevant argument.
1) The boats are still coming, they are just being turned back. Dutton released the latest boat numbers only last week and are readily available.
2) These refugees are already in our care. If you determine that the people on the boats who drowned coming to Australia, were our responsibility, then how do you argue that these children aren't our responsibility?
3) The people smuggling trade will never be stopped until the Indonesian authorities take action. Furthermore, our own Government pays people smugglers as one of their methods. Of course when this was leaked, conservatives such as Bolt described people smugglers as "innocent people merely providing a taxi service."
1) In 2012, 278 boats with 392 crew and 17 204 asylum seekers arrived.
In 2013, 300 boats with 644 crew and 20 587 asylum seekers arrived. How many did Dutton say arrived in last week's announcement, or a link please.
2) do we not provide food, water, shelter and medical services and education on Nauru?
3) really......our government pays people smugglers, you do have proof of that now don't you??
What tosh. There have been a handful of turn backs, barely any compared to the countless boats under labor. Thousands of lives have been saves, but you keep thinking you have the moral high ground.
Again, clearly you miss the point. It's about people already in our care.