15 Feb 2015

David Isaacs

From Sunday Morning, 7:25 am on 15 February 2015

A Sydney paediatrican has been so shocked by what he saw at the detention centre on Nauru, he has decided to speak out about it, despite the contracts he signed before working on the island. The Pacific Solution policy used by the Howard government was stopped after much controversy, but has since been re-instituted - It is a policy of processing those asylum seekers who try to reach Australia by boat, at asylum seeker camps on tiny Nauru and Manus Island, a remote island up in Papua New Guinea. Professor David Isaacs has the seen the conditions of the asylum seekers first hand - I asked him what the conditions were like?