ALHR Newsletters

Children No Longer to be behind Bars

On 18 October 2010, the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship announced a government decision to place asylum seeker children and families into the community. This very welcome and overdue change was the subject of an ALHR letter congratulating Mr Bowen and the government.

The letter, beautifully crafted by Mary Anne Kenny, one of our Western Australian members on the National Committee, may be viewed here at our activities page.

You will note that ALHR (and Mary Anne) also took the opportunity to recommend some other overdue reforms to the Minister.