‘Gillard lied on “razor wire”: she’s “freeing” children from motels
Julia Gillard has deceived journalists – and you. On Monday the Prime Minister suggested her changes to boat people laws meant freeing detained children now being held behind razor wire:
“I don’t think it’s the Australian way to, you know, have kids behind razor wire in the hope that that may be a deterrent.”
But the next day her secretary for the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Andrew Metcalfe, revealed the truth: no child had been held behind razor wire in years. In fact,
No children have been held in a detention centre since June 2005.
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