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“The minister is using the children in detention, along with the Palmer United party, as bargaining chips to get what he wants, which is temporary protection visas. We find this deeply offensive to international law, to the rights of the child, that they are being held as a means to ensure the minister gets what he wants – temporary visas.”
Previously, the human rights commission has opposed TPVs but, Triggs said, she would accept them “with some reluctance” if it meant children were released from detention.
The average length of detention for a child in the Australian immigration system was between 14 and 15 months.
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