By comparing regulations for Australian detention camps for those issued for Dachau Tranter wildly oversells any point she may have been making. I doubt whether the detainees are as neglected as imagines or supposes, but I'm sure that if there were not strict clamps on communication then they would scream as loudly as they could, irrespective of the conditions. they would have nothing to loose and a lot to gain, and people like Tranter, who has proven immune to reason in this area, would encourage them as hard as they could. We do need some oversight of conditions in the camp but it has to be independent. People like Tranter cannot be trusted with that task. Their reports would owe much more to politics or ideology than to facts.

Tell us love, how did you get off that duct tape they were using across your mouth to censor you.

For someone who is being censored, you sure manage to do a lot of bleating.

Through "propaganda tool of terror" "Dachau" and "Napalm girl" the author has used oddly sensationalist language which is unprofessional in a lawyer. Maybe appropriate for an 18yo uni Trot though...

Kellie's better-life refugees who can each afford the $10,000 seafare are clearly more "deserving" than the 100,000s refugees in Northeast African camps (not). The most needy refugees are in the legitimate queue for Australia and frequently are in a state of starvation. They are lucky to have $10 rather than $10,000.

Hear hear Cumugeon.

Perhaps if Kellie were exposing some of the things people smugglers do to rip off the poorest of the poor, some of her so called concerns could be linked to genuine humanity, rather than to paid activism and or, the refugee dollar?

We have over 100,000 homeless people here and now in this country, with many doing it far tougher than so called refugees.

Or put another way, undocumented economic migrants.

In any event, all we are obliged to do, is offer safe secure sanctuary, and resettlement!

And given we are doing both and at considerable expense to the inevitably non-consulted taxpayer, Kellie has no case to make!

I've lived in far harsher conditions; and there are now over 60 million displaced persons living in camps, many in vastly worse conditions.

We provide health care for all and education for kids.

They get three squares a day, all of which is far and away, better than most of the other 60 million have access to.

Yes there's censorship; and necessarily so!

The folks who engage in people smuggling need to this information in order to somehow circumvent our border controls, and therefore shouldn't have it.

And not only have illegal undocumented migrants coming to Australia in rotting hulks dried up, but many that used to come from the middle east using Indonesia as a transit point, have also!

As has a formerly lucrative business model; and not just for people smugglers Kellie!
That's all we really need to know!
Rhrosty.

She calls herself a human rights 'activist', but her activities seem restricted to badmouthing Australia where she knows she can say what she wishes without censorship, and legal or physical punishment, which is what she would get if she opened her gob around human rights abuses that actally happen in places she isn't brave enough to mention.

"Kellie Tranter is a lawyer and human rights activist. You can follow her on Twitter".... that pretty much sums it all up.

Her article is nothing more than unsubstantiated cheap shots at the Government and really not worth reading.