Foxy, if there were children of illegal immigrants of European origin in Australian detention centers there would be a huge outcry.

Somehow, Muslim children aren't the same.
However, that's not racism of course...

Beach, your concern for non-white Muslim children held in detention centers is touching, too bad its not genuine. You cynically exploit the misery of refugees simply to attack the Greens and Senator Sarah Hanson-Young in particular who has first hand experience of the "facilities" on places like Nauru, and unlike you, does have a genuine concern for refugees.

"A former Wilson Security guard says the Senator (Sarah Hanson-Young) was the target of an extensive spy operation when she (Senator Sarah Hanson-Young) visited Nauru in 2013 to inspect immigration detention facilities, with guards briefed on her room number, vehicle and what time she was going to be in and out of the camp."

<<So how many children of illegal immigrants are actually locked up, i.e. presumably as if in cells?>>
Joe to answer your question:

“Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.”

Richard Lovelace

Joe, I don't know about the shopping, swimming, bush walking and skimming of stones by refugee kids on Nauru, but here is a link to what 'Amnesty Internal' had to say about the place.

http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/30726/

For those who are trying unsuccessfully to rewrite history, including the over-powdered, over-paid and over-staying Gillian Triggs, who didn't find thousands of children while Labor and their treacherous Greens sidekicks were in government,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0MHRSFz6FM

Simply not true!

The Human Rights Commissioner's Report covered
children in detention under all governments.

And to say otherwise is a bald-faced lie and
political game playing.

The Sydney Morning Herald states that Gillian Triggs
hit a raw nerve with her children in detention report.

Gillian Triggs, a most distinguished and highly
respected lawyer came under significant attack from the
then Abbott government and some elements of the media.

In accordance with its Chsrter the Commission undertook an
inquiry into children in detention early in 2014.
The Attorney-General received a copy of the first report on
November 11, 2014.

The government had to publish the report within 15 sitting
days. They attempted to diminish the reputation of the
Commission - all designed to make it easier for the government
to ignore its report.

The importance of the report cannot be over emphasized.
It covered children in detention under all governments -
and should have been taken seriously. This was particularly
important as the Sydney Morning Herald pointed out -
because of the increase of arbitrary powers that were not
subject to appeal or review that the government had
granted its own ministers. The work of the Commission was
more necessary than it had ever been.

Hi Foxy, please don't blind the rabid right with the truth about the Australian Human Rights Commission report into 'Children in Immigration Detention' as presented by the President of the Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs. The Abbott Government, and to their shame, some within the Labor Party were willing to trade Australia's good reputation on human rights for short term political gain. To satisfy Abbott's jingoism of 'Stop the Boats' civil liberties and freedoms were, and are still being compromised in detention centers.