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3 July 2015

Can People Working In Detention Centres Actually Go To Jail For Revealing Child Abuse?

Yesterday a piece of legislation called the Border Force Act 2015 came into effect. Passed by both major parties on May 14, the law mandates the formation of a new super-agency, the Australian Border Force, which essentially merges old Immigration and Customs duties like security at air and sea ports, patrolling Australian waters and running detention centres.
Resplendent in a spiffy new black uniform, new Border Force Commissioner and former senior AFP officer Roman Quaedvlieg declared during his swearing-in ceremony that “our Utopia, our country is under constant threat,” which doesn’t sound ominous and a bit scaremongery at all.

http://junkee.com/junk-explained-can-people-working-in-detention-centres-actually-go-to-jail-for-revealing-child-abuse/60350