A timeline to remember

On July 19 2013, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that ‘any asylum seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in Australia as refugees’ and would be sent to Papua New Guinea for processing and resettlement. Since the announcement, successive governments have failed in their duty of care for the men, women and children who have suffered in abusive conditions offshore with no hope of a safe future.

For 4 years, successive Australian governments have forced people seeking safety to suffer in offshore detention under harmful and abusive conditions. We have illustrated a timeline highlighting some of the many failures of the Australian government in providing a duty of care that values fairness and respect to refugees and people seeking asylum. View the timeline here: http://bit.ly/EvacuateNowInfographic

Read the report, Four Years Too Many by the Human Right Law Centre and GetUp!, featuring the stories of seven of the men still held on Manus.