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.
|
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