A tiny typo unfortunately made a caption on Aussie news exceedingly NSFW
There was one headline that caught everyone's eye on Australian news on Wednesday.
Daniel Webb, the Director of Legal Advocacy at Australia's Human
Rights Law Centre, was on ABC News talking about a High Court ruling. He
said:
The stroke of a pen is all it would take for our Prime Minister to do the decent thing.
Unfortunately, a space bar malfunction between 'pen' and 'is' has left the caption reading something entirely different:
Webb appeared to talk about a High Court ruling that has re-affirmed
the legality of imprisoning refugees, including children, in offshore
detention centres.
A group of 267 asylum seekers, including 30 children and 33 babies
born in Australia, are now expected to be sent to the island of Nauru.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has condemned the decision, saying it:
has no bearing on Australia’s moral responsibility or its obligations to protect the rights of children in accordance with international human rights law.
Rights groups are now calling on prime minister Malcolm Turnbull to
permanently close Australia's offshore detention sites on several
Pacific islands.
In Australia there is mandatory detention for anyone without a valid
visa, and as of 2013 anyone arriving by boat will not be settled in the
country even if they are found to be "valid" refugees, but rather in
Papua New Guinea.
There are increasing reports of violence and rape at the country's outsourced island detention centres.
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