On Tuesday I posted a note calling for courage from our Parliamentarians, and last night our good friends at ChilOut and GetUp launched a campaign which shows exactly why courage matters. 

Their new website -  - is quite incredible, featuring drawings, letters and an interview with people on Manus. Detention is no place for children, especially the new island prisons of Manus Island and Nauru.

This is where courage is needed, the political courage to stand up to the fear campaigns and declare that detaining children is morally indefensible – and the courage to refuse to vote for policies which make it legal.

This is a call that Minister O’Connor has to make – it is up to each one of us, and each MP to contact him and leave him in no doubt how the community feels about children in detention.

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