TY - JOUR
T1 - Ending our shame: call for a fundamental reconsideration of Australian refugee policy
AU - Bennett, Elizabeth A.
AU - Newman, Louise
AU - Burnside, Julian W. K.
AU - Phatarfod, Barri
AU - Thomas, Robert M.
AU - Moodie, A. Rob
AU - Moore, Michael J.
PY - 2017/8/5
Y1 - 2017/8/5
N2 - We, as members of the Australian public health community, reaffirm The Lancet's call for urgent action to end mandatory detention in the Editorial “Asylum seekers: Australia's shame” (June 24, p 2444).1 We highlight the compelling evidence of deleterious health impacts caused by current arbitrary immigration detention practices in both offshore “processing centres” and indefinite detention in Australia.2, 3
AB - We, as members of the Australian public health community, reaffirm The Lancet's call for urgent action to end mandatory detention in the Editorial “Asylum seekers: Australia's shame” (June 24, p 2444).1 We highlight the compelling evidence of deleterious health impacts caused by current arbitrary immigration detention practices in both offshore “processing centres” and indefinite detention in Australia.2, 3
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85024902722&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31914-1
DO - 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31914-1
M3 - Letter
SN - 0140-6736
VL - 390
SP - 552
EP - 552
JO - Lancet
JF - Lancet
IS - 10094
ER -
