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Young children are being held against their will as Asylum Seekers to live in detention centres across Australia. They show signs of mental illness, a lack of education, and physical harm brought on by the lack of human rights being allowed in these detention centres. By allowing young children to be kept for excessive amounts of time within these detention centres the common good is not being served. These children are being denied basic human rights like an education, safety, medical attention whether mental or physical. The perspectives that will be analysed include the Australian Government who introduced the turn back the boats policy and reduced the children in detention centres by ninety percent, the children living in the asylums who

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