Abstract
Can doctors successfully challenge the state when medical ethics are crushed by perceived national interest? And if it’s not our own state that’s doing the crushing, should we care? ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ (Martin Luther King Jr, Letter from Birmingham Jail, 16 April 1963) In 2013, desperate to curb arrivals by sea, Australia declared that no asylum seeker arriving by boat would ever settle on Australian soil. Instead, they are sent for ‘offshore processing’ at detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island. Even when granted refugee status, they effectively have nowhere to go. The United Nations (UN) call this illegal: Australia’s actions contravene international treaties they have long since signed.1 There are around 1200 asylum seekers on Nauru and 900 on Manus Island, from a variety of Middle Eastern, African, and Asian countries. Many are children and conditions are dreadful. Leaked …
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