This Abbott government is truly vicious and spiteful and against a baby who was born here at the Brisbane Qld Mater hospital. Hardly surprising considering all Aussie citizens unless you are rich mean nothing at all to the government except at election time and only because they need us to win government. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Rohingya family whose child was born in detention have lost a last-minute court appeal to prevent the federal government from transferring them to Darwin, away from the baby’s doctors. The family, who have been in Brisbane while baby Ferouz who was born with respiratory problems received medical attention, will now be transferred to a Darwin centre on Saturday morning, after the high court in Brisbane rejected an application to stop it. The Immigration Department argued that “there are other families in Nauru who need to come to Brisbane who need medical treatment and that this family didnt need to stay in Brisbane as much”, said the lawyer acting for the family, Murray Watt from Maurice Blackburn. “We acknowledge that … but there was very little evidence presented by the minister as to why those other families couldn’t go to other facilities in Australia.” In October last year, Guardian Australia revealed that 31-year-old Latifar was being held in the Nauru offshore processing centre while pregnant and suffering from diabetes. Her husband and their child were also detained with her. The couple – both from Burma’s Rohingya Muslim minority – fled Burma more than 10 years ago. After serious concern was expressed by #doctors, Latifar and her family were transferred to mainland detention and baby Ferouz was born in #Brisbane’s Mater hospital. Ferouz was born with respiratory problems needing round-the-clock medical care, but his mother was sent back to detention and it was claimed they were separated for up to 18 hours a day. An internal immigration department review later found these claims to be false. In November the family and the Immigration Department reached an out-of-court agreement which stopped them being returned to Nauru before Ferouz was well. Throughout a months-long battle to keep the family in Australia, lawyers have argued that Ferouz is entitled to the same rights as any #Australian born in the country, as his parents were effectively stateless at the time of his birth in Brisbane, giving the infant a claim to #citizenship. Ferouz’s protection visa was rejected on the grounds that he arrived by boat, Watt told Guardian Australia, which the family’s lawyers are still challenging. #morrison #abbott #refugee #asylum #acountable #health #auspol #share #asylum
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 11:25:19 +0000
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