Doctors Have Been Sleeping Outside For Four Months To Protest Indefinite Detention. They Don't Plan On Stopping.
"Australia Detained People On Islands For Years. Now It Wants To Ban Them From Ever Visiting. "Refugees pick Nauru over US" "
"We're not out here trying to get a good night's sleep. We know that it's going to be hard and I guess that's the point of it."
Posted on December 7, 2019, at 7:49 a.m.
Hannah Ryan BuzzFeed News Reporter, Australia
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When Javed Badyari was 19 years old, the prime minister at the time, Kevin Rudd, announced that no asylum-seeker who tried to reach Australia by boat would ever be allowed to settle in the country.
In the years since then, Badyari, now 26, has studied medicine, moved from Sydney down to the seaside city of Wollongong, started work as a doctor, and become engaged to medical student Hannah Clements.
While Badyari was finding his feet as a young adult, hundreds of people spent the same six years in a state of permanent uncertainty, held in detention camps on small Pacific islands.
The conservative government that unseated Rudd in 2013 built on his hardline policy, leaving hundreds of asylum-seekers in indefinite detention on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island and the tiny nation of Nauru. Hundreds remain there today, unsure what their future holds and increasingly suffering ill health.
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“I’ve always believed very strongly that Australians are very good-natured people, compassionate people, we’re all about mateship,” Badyari said. “Indefinite detention is such a contradiction to our culture and our good nature.”
It only persists because of ignorance and fear, he believes, including messages sent by the media.
“We’re trying to counteract that message by educating people that there is a lot of suffering happening to innocent people whose only crime is fleeing war and persecution and death,” Badyari said.
Some people they speak to have never heard of Nauru, especially younger people.
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