Growing up in detention: Casualties of Australia's refugee system

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : By law, unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in Australia are under the guardianship of what was known in 2014 as the minister for immigration and border protection.
50% : Too small for more than a thousand people seeking asylum, she says.
47% : "Once the people seeking asylum were released and became refugees, the Nauruans probably felt like they had to defend their country.
44% : Ian Rintoul, a political activist and spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition, an organisation that campaigns for the rights of people seeking asylum in Australia, said that while billions of dollars have gone into detention on both Manus and Nauru across the years, very little has reached the refugees.
36% : Jenny Leahy, an education manager for a school teaching English and a few other skills under Connect Settlement Services, a company providing welfare, employment and education to refugees on the island at the time, feels that "it was child abuse from the moment they were sent there".

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