The recent announcement that most Australian detention centres will close and all asylum seekers will be transferred offshore to Nauru and Manus Island confirms the fears of children currently detained on Christmas Island.
In March, we spent a week on Christmas Island as medical consultants to the Australian Human Rights Commission's inquiry into the impact of immigration detention on children.
Sadness and fear: what the drawings by children in detention showed us
We spent a week on Christmas Island as medical consultants – we were shocked by the pervasive sadness, the despair in children and in adu...