The Wire

In the weeks since the Palmer Inquiry, all children and many long -term detainees of Australias’ immigration detention system, have been released. But today refugee advocates are claiming that it’s being left up to them to support newly released detainees, because the government has not created adaquate settlement packages. Pamela Curr is the campaign co-ordinator for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. She told Alma Mistry that the government has been forced to release long-term detainees because of public uneasiness with the policy.