Protesters urging the Australian government to close offshore detention camps on Nauru and Manus Island have interrupted a major economic speech by prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull. About 15 minutes in protesters interrupted the speech with cries of “for God’s sake, Malcolm, close the fucking camps”. One protester successfully stormed the stage with a sign that read “FFS [for fuck’s sake] close the bloody camps”. The Nauru files have led to calls for a parliamentary inquiry and renewed calls to close offshore detention. “I don’t think they can be swept under the carpet and I don’t think we can ignore the fairly significant release of a whole lot of files and complaints,” he said.

Source: The Guardian August 17, 2016 04:08 UTC