Well done, Australia!

[Thumpalumpacus]

Myself, I think it's pretty shitty. Here's what Amnesty International has to say about Nauru:

Nauru is to all intents and purposes an open-air prison that people cannot leave, even when they have been officially recognized as
refugees.

[...]

But it is not just that refugees cannot leave Nauru – the country is not a safe place for them to stay. Many of
the refugees and asylum-seekers interviewed by Amnesty International described how they or their friends
and family had been attacked and/or subjected to verbal abuse inside and outside of the Refugee
Processing Centre. This includes physical attacks on men, children and women – including sexual assaults –
as well as robbery and attempts to break into their homes.

[...]

The health care available on Nauru is inadequate. Certain medical services, specialists, tests and procedures
are not available on the island. Individuals said they had to wait for months to see a visiting specialist or
undergo a necessary test, even when, according to the doctors, their condition was serious, such as
suspected cancer.

Those are some extracts from the summary. I haven't read the whole thing, but I will. You can get the PDF at https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa...4/2016/en/

Myself, I think the humane thing to do is help refugees, not give them a choice of returning to a place which might kill them, packing them along in the hopes some other country might be more humane ... or sticking them on an island prison and subjecting them to dehumanizing treatment.

If I were chasing you with a stick, would you hide in the first house you came to, or wait til you found one with which you had a 'link'?

Boru

I would hit you with my stick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WGVgfjnLqc