Claire Loughnan

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Detained refugees inside a compound at Darwin Airport where they have been held for a year while they wait for medical treatment. Aaron Bunch/AAP

Scores of medevac refugees have been released from detention. Their freedom, though, remains tenuous

Sara Dehm, University of Technology Sydney and Claire Loughnan, The University of Melbourne

Those who have been released have little financial or social support, confining them to lives of precarity, dependency and impoverishment in our community.
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Refugees need protection from coronavirus too, and must be released

Claire Loughnan, The University of Melbourne; Anthea Vogl, University of Technology Sydney; Caroline Fleay, Curtin University; Philomena Murray, The University of Melbourne, and Sara Dehm, University of Technology Sydney

It is almost impossible for asylum seekers held in detention to practise social distancing. For their protection, and that of the wider community, the government must take action now.

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