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Sarah Hanson-Young
Senator for South Australia

Dutton’s ‘blackmail’, ‘self-harm’ comments a disgrace: Greens

22 February, 2016 - The Immigration Minister's claims that he is being held to ransom and blackmailed by a one-year-old girl are inexcusable, the Australian Gre...

Nauru visa ban shows Prison Island’s paranoia

19 February, 2016 - The reported ban on all Australian and New Zealand visitor visas to Nauru shows the paranoia of the remote Pacific nation, the Australian Gr...

Greens support Lady Cilento Hospital staff stopping government cruelty

12 February, 2016 - The Australian Greens have congratulated the doctors and nurses at the Lady Cilento Hospital in Queensland who are standing up to the govern...

Greens urge PM to accept Victorian offer to let asylum seekers stay

6 February, 2016 - The Australian Greens have today urged Malcolm Turnbull to accept the Victorian Government's offer to give refuge to the 267 asylum seekers s...

PM must condemn Dutton’s racist dog-whistle

5 February, 2016 - The draft cabinet briefing, reportedly prepared for the Immigration Minister and leaked to the media today, proposing a radical overhaul of t...

Turnbull ‘mum’ on fate of refugee babies & children

4 February, 2016 - In response to his first question since yesterday’s High Court decision concerning the fate of the 37 babies and 90 children living in Austra...

Sending children to Nauru would be child abuse on the PM’s watch

3 February, 2016 - Following today's High Court's decision on offshore detention on Nauru, the Australian Greens have called on the Prime Minister to rule out s...

Babies should not be sent to Nauru

2 February, 2016 - The Australian Greens have called on Malcolm Turnbull to guarantee that no children will be sent back to Nauru, regardless of the outcome of ...

Australia fairly slammed by Human Rights Watch

28 January, 2016 - The Australian Greens have called on Malcolm Turnbull to address the criticisms levelled against his government, due to its treatment of peop...

Turnbull must heed advice of Govt doctors, release all children from detention

18 January, 2016 - It has been revealed that the Government has been ignoring medical advice from its own healthcare provider, IHMS, and putting hundreds of chi...

Epidemic of self-harm in detention must be addressed: Greens

16 January, 2016 - The Australian Greens have called on the government and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to address a growing epidemic of self-harm within A...

Dutton delays as detention drags on

13 January, 2016 - The extended delays in processing people's claims for asylum have resulted in unacceptably long detention times, the Australian Greens have s...