Game Over: Get People to Safety

Massive news. The refugees should never have been detained. For now though, it's time to celebrate their freedom. And extend the most heartfelt apology for what they've suffered. #GameOver

Latest update on New Zealand resettlement, 16 refugees departed Australia yesterday and 1 refugee will leave #Nauru for New Zealand today, finally able to rebuild their lives @AmnestyNZ @amnestyOz

"Officials expect that in the next year no #refugees & asylum seekers will remain on #Nauru, but maintaining facilities for offshore processing will continue to cost at least $350m a year as a “contingency”...in the event of future boat arrivals."#GameOver theguardian.com/australia-news…

“Under international law, countries cannot deliberately avoid their human rights obligations by doing in the territory of another country something they could not do in their own. To allow otherwise would undermine the entire human rights system.”#GameOver #mtr" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime…

“One fully understands it’s not something a country can manage in a week. I get it. But years on end? It doesn’t stack up.” Australia must do better at giving refugees a fair go. #GameOver @amnestyOz @drgrahamthom smh.com.au/national/limit…

Warning: Distressing “I was never given any indication of how long I would be forced to stay there,...I didn’t know if it would be 1 day, 2 years, 5 years.” #GameOver @amnestyOz @Craig_Foster news.com.au/national/found…

“When the wellbeing of vulnerable people is sacrificed to intellectual laziness or strategic furphies like ‘Stop the Boats’, you don’t have a democracy worth defending,” - @jsalmonupstream #GameOver @amnestyOz @Craig_Foster sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/albanese-…

“Every day is a struggle and suffering. We are here in offshore detention for 10 years now. We are also human...take 1 minute for us & think about our feelings and our families. We are separated from our children, siblings & parents…" #GameOver @amnestyOz theguardian.com/australia-news…

“Australia’s Offshore Processing regime...has failed to process nor resettle people expeditiously, at an insurmountable financial cost, & most critically has left those impacted by this system in perpetual trauma and suffering.." @RACSaustralia #GameOver racs.org.au/news-old/the-e…

Warning: images of self harm. Horrific treatment meted out by Australia. "Both men have multiple health conditions...they’ve watched hundreds being medevaced before them, to receive the treatment they were being denied."#GameOver @sydcrimlawyers @amnestyOz sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nauru-hun…

"The government of Australia cannot seek to divest itself of responsibility or limit jurisdiction and responsibility under international law for those taken to Nauru or Papua New Guinea," -@Refugees #GameOver @amnestyOz @Craig_Foster mandurahmail.com.au/story/8101439/…

"the United Nations High Commission for Refugees was excoriating about Nauru in a letter they wrote to home affairs minister Clare O’Neal. That letter is on the public record." - @NickMcKim @sydcrimlawyers #GameOver @Craig_Foster @amnestyOz sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/australia…

Another very welcome step ⁦@andrewjgiles⁩ Well done. Now for those still on Nauru + Medevac refugees. Their rights were taken, bodies & minds destroyed & they have communities in Australia helping them recover & rebuild. They have the right to stay sbs.com.au/news/article/t…

"The only difference between the people who have been told they will never settle in Australia & everyone else on TPVs is an arbitrary date that saw one group taken offshore and told they will never ever be allowed to settle here." @ZakiHaidariAU theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“So for me, it was a shock, when he was explaining things in details. I couldn’t really believe how humans can treat other humans like this only because they sought asylum and asked for protection in that country.” - @Moones_M #GameOver @Craig_Foster aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/9/…

"[The] people of Australia have this right to know that what the government...have done, in offshore & onshore,... 14 people have been killed in Manus Island and Nauru, 100s of people have been damaged." -@BehrouzBoochani at Parliament House #GameOver sbs.com.au/news/article/a…

"This incident in particular has caused an enormous amount of distress inside Villawood, It is shocking that there has been yet another suicide in Villawood detention centre." @rac_sydney #GameOver middleeastmonitor.com/20230130-iraqi…

“Over many years and countless reports, the commonwealth ombudsman has uncovered the daily indignities that people are subjected to in both detention centres and supposed ‘alternative’ places of detention like hotels.” @humanrightsHRLC #GameOver @amnestyOz theguardian.com/australia-news…

"They have endured more than a decade of neglect and hopelessness, with inadequate medical care and other support services," - @DanGhez #GameOver @amnestyOz @Craig_Foster @NickMcKim #FreeTheRefugees sbs.com.au/news/article/a…

"While we are thankful the New Zealand Government has stepped up to provide permanent solutions for people who have suffered in limbo for so many years in Australia’s offshore detention, the process is too slow,” - @drgrahamthom @amnestyOz #GameOver i.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/1310…

“I spoke once with a case manager but nobody has come [since]. I don’t know what’s going on,...It’s been more than 20 days.” Brought onshore for medical help, then made to wait in dehumanising conditions with no agency. #GameOver @Craig_Foster @amnestyOz theguardian.com/australia-news…