Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I present to the Senate a petition, signed by more than 65,000 people, Australian citizens, calling for the Manus Island and Nauru detention centres to be closed immediately. The petition shows that the conditions inside the Manus Island and Nauru detention centres are cruel, unsanitary and unacceptable. The safety and wellbeing of people inside the facilities cannot be guaranteed and the facilities have been shown time and time again to not meet both international standards and the standards set by the government themselves. The petitioners ask that the Senate abide by Australia's international, legal and humanitarian obligations, put an end to this shameful policy and close the Manus Island and Nauru detention centres now.

We know that the rights of children in particular inside the Nauru facility are under threat on a daily basis. We know that conditions inside the Nauru detention centre are horrific. More and more allegations of abuse, assault and terrible conditions continue to leak out of that centre—

Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Senator Hanson-Young, I am sorry to interrupt, but you were not granted leave to make a statement.

Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I am happy to leave it there. The petition has 65,000 signatures from Australians wanting these detention centres, these camps of cruelty, to be closed.

Petition received.