Everyone remembers when Scott Morrison declared that Reza Barati was killed ‘outside the wire’ at the Manus Island detention centre.
It was a low point of the former Minister’s career.
Peter Dutton should have paid more attention to Scott Morrison’s mistakes before having a Morrison-moment of his own, about the Somali refugee brought from Nauru, declaring that, “The woman has decided not to proceed with the termination.”
That is not the case.
He has become a victim of his own propaganda.
Peter Dutton took a political decision to remove Abyan without allowing her to consult with her lawyer; and without counselling and without the medical attention she needed.
The Australian government went to extraordinary lengths to remove Abyan to ensure that the decision to remove her could not be considered by a court.
It is Peter Dutton’s shameful political agenda that is being exposed.
Service contractors on Nauru are still warning Abyan not to contact Australian lawyers.
On more than one occasion, Dutton has insisted that people who are on Nauru and Manus “will not be coming to settle permanently in Australia”.
The people who have been brought from Nauru to Australia have come because they have been brought by the Australian government because there is no proper medical or mental health care on Nauru. For example, some of them have contracted TB at an Australian-run detention centre on Nauru; others have disabilities that render their life on Nauru intolerable.
Peter Dutton and the Immigration department have treated Abyan abominably. The government’s respect for women has been revealed as a sham.
Abyan is still waiting for the medical attention she needs.
For more information contact Ian Rintoul 0417 275 713
