It’s time to #EndChildDetention for Tharnicaa and Kopika, to #RaiseTheAge of the incarceration of children from 10 to 14 years, and it’s #TimeForAHome for those who came to Australia escaping danger and instead were detained indefinitely for never ending years. 1/10 #HomeToBilo
Australia went before the United Nations Human Rights Council for its Universal Periodic Review in Jan, 2021. Over 40 countries criticised Australia’s refugee policy, that Australia’s abandoned it’s human rights responsibilities. 2/10 #GameOver #EndChildDetention #HomeToBilo
27 countries urged Australia to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to at least 14 years. Australia's age policy disproportionately affects Indigenous children who may already have inter-generational trauma. 3/10 #GameOver #EndChildDetention #RaiseTheAge
On Twitter I ask daily questions as if the questions were coming from Tharnicaa with her big sister Kopika. On my Pinned Tweet you will see thousands of likes and hundreds of comments for them from individuals worldwide. 4/10 #GameOver #EndChildDetention #HomeToBilo
A growing number of Australians want all individuals who came to Australia escaping danger freed from indefinite detention. This thread is a simple call to #EndChildDetention for Tharnicaa and Kopika and to #RaiseTheAge of incarceration of children. 5/10 #GameOver #HomeToBilo
It is also a call to achieve the ultimate goal to renew Australia’s refugee policy so that any person who comes here escaping danger is welcomed in a humane, legal, efficient, and dignified manner. 6/10 #GameOver #TimeForAHome #EndChildDetention #HomeToBilo
I have sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Australia outlining the growing concerns of Australia’s refugee policy, the latest advice from the Human Rights Watch World Report 2021, and a humane, legal, evidence based solution. 7/10 #GameOver #TimeForAHome #EndChildDetention
A copy was also sent to Anthony Albanese and Jacinda Ardern. Within 24 hours Anthony and Jacinda’s assistants kindy responded. Anthony’s gave it to their policy team and Jacinda’s to the Head of Department of Foreign Affairs. 8/10 #GameOver #TimeForAHome #EndChildDetention
The Labor Government has called for the release of Priya, Nades, Kopika and Tharnicaa from detention and into the community. Kopika and Tharnicaa are the only two children left in Australian Immigration detention. 9/10 #GameOver #TimeForAHome #EndChildDetention #HomeToBilo
If you agree it’s time to #EndChildDetention, #RaiseTheAge, and that it’s #TimeForAHome for those who came here escaping danger and instead were detained indefinitely for never ending years, please share this thread. We appreciate your voice. 10/10 #GameOver #HomeToBilo
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