That is the very short version: Act now! https://www.amnesty.org.au/act-now/end-secret-abuse-on-nauru/ The longer- Why? https://static.amnesty.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ISLAND-OF-DESPAIR-F... And here what you hear in Germany over the last months: Die Zeit (The Time, a popular and well-known German weekly magazine) http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2016-10/menschenrechte-austral... Amnesty International accuses Australia to torture refugees, 17/10/2016 http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2016-08/australische-fluechtli... Nothing new, just Hell on Earth(11/8/2016) German's public broadcaster: https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/australien-fluechtlinge-nauru-misshandlung... Nauru - From one Hell to another(14/8/2016) Berlin broadsheet: http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/ausweisung-auf-pazifikinseln-australiens-... Australia's Hell for refugees (10/8/2016) German radio: http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/australiens-fluechtlingspolitik-auf-inseln-int... Jailed on islands (7/6/2016) German's biggest ISP: http://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/panorama/menschen-schicksale/id_75245740/... Australia treats humans with unbelievable cruelty(31/8/2016) Austria's most read newspaper: http://derstandard.at/2000042025981/Australiens-FluechtlingspolitikWir-alle-... Refugee politics in Australia: most do not want to mention the deportation camps(1/8/2016) German's International radio station: http://www.dw.com/de/australien-schlie%C3%9Ft-fl%C3%BCchtlingslager-auf-der-... Australia is closing refugee camps on Manus Island(17/8/2016) [well, that what German journalists expect after the highest court of Papua New Guinea declared the camp for illegal] Our treatment of refugees is the most-reported Australia topic for years by now. We are getting famous for it. Sorry, infamous. We may look the other way. The civilized world does not. Apologies for being such a pest. But maybe the bigger pest is some ongoing issue since 2001. This is 15 years of state-sanctioned inhumane campaigning against refugees and ignorance of our international obligations by now. It is high time for all Australians to do something about it. Regards Peter