Scorecard for candidates

 At the beginning of the campaign the Batgrans sent a list of questions to each of the candidates.  Here are their responses

Grandmothers ask:           Will Batman candidates free the refugee children?

Candidates BATMAN Electorate 2018	Party	Ballot paper order	Get all refugee and asylum seeker children and their families off Nauru to safety and care as soon as possible	End detention of refugee and asylum seeker children and their families except for brief assessment	Bring all refugee children and their families from Nauru to settle in Australia
GENTLE, Yvonne	Rise Up Australia Party	1	✔	✔	✗
KEARNEY, Ged	Australian Labor Party	2	✔	✔	*
BHATHAL, Alex	The Greens	3	✔	✔	✔
BAILEY, Kevin Christopher	Australian Conservatives	4	✔	✗	✗
BURNS, Tegan	Australian People’s Party	5	✔	✔	✔
ROBINSON, Debbie	Australian Liberty Alliance	6	✔	✗	✗
VAN LIESHOUT, Teresa		7	✔	✔	✔
WHITEHEAD, Adrian		8	✔	✔	✔
MCDONALD, Mark	Sustainable Australia	9	✔	✔	✔
SMITH, Miranda Joyce	Animal Justice Party	10	✔	✔	✔

Batman Grandmothers against the Detention of Refugee Children asked these questions to all local candidates in the 2018 Federal by-election.

*no answer received to this specific question. Ged Kearney referred to the ALP wider refugee policies.  

Grandmothers ask Batman candidates:

Candidates BATMAN  Electorate 2018	Party	If elected, what would you do to ensure refugee children are moved to safety from Nauru?
GENTLE, Yvonne	Rise Up Australia Party	There needs to be an alternative place which would be safe for the refugees and have facilities for them
KEARNEY, Ged	Australian Labor Party	Refugees on Manus Island and Nauru – including children – have been there too long and I want to see them safely resettled as soon as possible. Labor will work to ensure children are out of detention as soon as possible, appoint an independent children’s advocate to represent the interests of children seeking asylum, and reintroduce the ‘90 day rule’ into the Migration Act … If I’m elected, I’ll be a voice for asylum seekers in the Parliament, inside the Labor Party and in the Labor caucus.
BHATHAL, Alex	The Greens	Children don’t belong in detention. It is to our national shame that there are still children living in rotting tents on Nauru. The Greens will remove all children and their families from detention immediately, including those in offshore detention and on Nauru. The Greens will save $2.9 billion by shutting the detention camps on Manus Island and Nauru and abolishing the practice of offshore detention.
BAILEY, Kevin Christopher	Australian Conservatives	Place them in third party countries
BURNS, Tegan	Australian People’s Party	Bring forward legislation to bring refugees here
ROBINSON, Debbie	Australian Liberty Alliance	If elected I would charter a flight back to their home region and use the money we save to help indigenous and disadvantaged children in Australia.
VAN LIESHOUT, Teresa		I would bring the women & children from Nauru to Australia to settle here.
WHITEHEAD, Adrian		Work with the government of the day to achieve this
MCDONALD, Mark	Sustainable Australia	Develop a policy that children do not go  to detention
SMITH, Miranda Joyce	Animal Justice Party	As a representative of a minor party that has core values of kindness and equality I would support any introduced bill that  supported refugee children being moved to safety from Nauru.