Australia drugging detainees in its secret immigration detention network

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This is just horrific. A little bit different to the normal stories here but this tells the tale of an immigration detention employee in comic book form - it's really, really nasty stuff but an incredibly vivid and powerful form of journalism

http://serco-story.theglobalmail.org/

This is a first-hand account of life inside an Australian immigration detention facility, told from the perspective of a former employee of Serco, the ubiquitous multinational service provider that runs the nation’s onshore centres.

Realised in a comic-book style and drawn from exclusive interviews and diary entries from the ex-employee, A Guard’s Story offers rare insight into how Australia’s outsourced detention facilities are run.

Like all Serco employees, our informant signed a confidentiality agreement and has taken a significant personal risk by talking to us.

Prior to being employed by Serco, our source was sympathetic to the plight of asylum seekers in Australia’s detention facilities and took on a job as a “client support worker” to try to help people from inside the system.

What follows is our source’s experience, illustrated.

 

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Thanks B_P; I must admit that over the last 10+ years, it has been emotionally gruelling to "maintain the rage" on this issue - but the links you post and pay wall articles you've shared here are incredibly informative.
The MSM has really let us down here. No wonder the scumbag coalition is so rabidly attacking the ABC for doing what taxpayers pay them to do - keep the public informed.
Kudos.

 

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Thanks. If nothing else we MUST bear witness to the crimes being conducted in our name. Can you imagine if the rest of the world started employing tactics like boat turnbacks? Hundreds of thousands of boat arrivals cross the Mediterranean each year, it would be a humanitarian nightmare. Our 10,000 or so absolutely pales in comparison. People need to her these stories.

 

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Very true.
Much appreciated; keep up the good work