'Damaging Kids' Children in Department of Immigration and Indigenous Affairs' Immigration Detention Centres

This report focuses on the experience of young people in immigration detention centres and how they felt it affected them. It considers the human rights standards that Australia has agreed to and how it is respecting them in regards to children seeking asylum. The report assesses definitions of emotional and psychological abuse of children under domestic child protection legislation against disturbing official evidence of self-harm by children and adults held in detention