Former detainees not coping

Former detainees not coping with life outside, spokesman says. :

"A human rights lobby group says some released asylum seekers have been pleading to be taken back to the Baxter detention centre in South Australia because they cannot cope with life outside."

Yes, there has been no thought put into the welfare of these people at all. Locked up in severe conditions and then set free, yes, they will want to run back to lock up. That is something which is noted in prisoners and long term hospital cases. Sad, sad, sad that we have shown ourselves to be so clumsy and uncaring. We are not like that at all. We haven't been like that and we are embarrassed. Safe houses, safe areas, controlled conditions. We need to get in there in a way in which we are hugely successful in this country and just bridge that gap. We are immensely practical in our human relations so we shall just have to work out some strategies to create a buffer zone for those people who have suffered enough. Put yourselves in their shoes and heaven forbid you would have to go through what they have gone through. It is such archaic treatment of people. We were way past that.