Here you go, SM

This is the type of thing this dreadful outfit (otherwise known as the Abbott govt) encapsulates.

http://m.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/asylum-seeker-mother-kept-from-newborn-baby-in-brisbane-20131113-2xh5v.html#ixzz2kYa0vLev

"An asylum seeker who was moved off Nauru to give birth is being locked up for 18 hours a day in a detention centre in Brisbane while her week-old baby remains in hospital with respiratory problems.

The case of Latifa, a 31-year-old woman of the persecuted Rohingya people of Myanmar, has shocked churches and refugee advocates.

She was separated from her baby on Sunday, four days after a caesarean delivery, and has since been allowed to visit him only between 10am and 4pm in Brisbane's Mater Hospital. The boy, named Farus, has respiratory problems and needs round-the-clock medical care.

Latifa is confined to the Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation, 20 minutes away, where her husband and two children, four and seven, are being held.

Latifa's husband, Niza, is not allowed to visit the child at all, according to people in daily contact with the family.

Misha Coleman, a qualified midwife and executive officer of the Churches Refugee Taskforce, said the separation of mother and child marked a worrying development in the Abbott government's hardline asylum seeker policy. ''As a midwife this is the most diabolical situation for a mother and a newborn one could imagine,'' she said."

Although, here's a turnup for the books.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/senate-orders-scott-morrison-to-reveal-asylum-seeker-details-20131114-2xi8a.html

"The Senate has ordered Immigration Minister Scott Morrison to tell Parliament about incidents involving asylum seekers at sea in a bid to end the government's information clampdown.

A motion moved by Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young was passed with Labor support on Thursday morning, demanding that Mr Morrison table reports about on-water incidents within 24 hours.

The order follows Mr Morrison's refusal during question time on Wednesday to answer a question by Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles about the reported arrival of asylum seekers in Darwin earlier in the week.
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The Senate order also demands that Mr Morrison table reports on all of the incidents at sea since the election."

P,

So the tail is trying to wag the dog. The greens and the senate are trying to assume powers that the senate does not have. The greens and labor can huff and puff, but Morrison can ignore them. In 30 days the greens can report him to the Lib dominated privileges committee which will squash it.

The story of an illegal immigrant that has been given free medical treatment for her child and sees her 6 hours a day during visiting hours is hardly heart wrenching.

SM,

"The story of an illegal immigrant that has been given free medical treatment for her child and sees her 6 hours a day during visiting hours is hardly heart wrenching."

(Actually it's the story of Morrison and his department separating a sick newborn baby from its mother)

However, your sentiment above sums you up nicely.

P,

My sentiment is that the story is a beat up. When my child was born, she had a fever and was taken to neonatal high for 5 days. In those 5 days we never got to spend more than 6 hours with her simply because the high care unit has strict visiting hours for a reason. We wanted to see her all the time, but did not feel that a nasty regime was tearing us apart.

If the woman never got to see her child, you might have a point, this feeble attempt at pathos is pathetic.

SM,

Yes, some of us have been there with a newborn who needed extra care.

My little fella was hooked up to drips, etc.

If someone had taken me away and locked me up away from or the vicinity, I would have been devastated.

My point is that it is certainly "not necessary" to remove this new mother from the hospital where her sick baby resides.

For you to claim: " this feeble attempt at pathos is pathetic." makes me despair at the country we're becoming.

The only thing "feeble" these days appears to be the trending sense of compassion in our society.

P,

The illegal's child is in high care, I doubt whether any mother with their child in high care neonatal gets much more more than 6 hrs contact a day. Sleeping in the hospital is out of the question, so the rest is logistics.

Again a pathetic beat up devoid of substance.