Labor will move to establish a parliamentary inquiry into allegations of sexual assault and child abuse at Australia’s detention centre on Nauru following the Guardian’s publication of more than 2,000 leaked incident report from inside the immigration regime. But Australia’s immigration minister Peter Dutton has sought to dismiss the dossier of files, claiming that they contain false reports and have mostly been reported before. Shadow immigration minister Shayne Neumann told the Guardian on Saturday that Dutton’s response to the revelations was “dismissive and disgraceful”. Liberal MP Russell Broadbent said the government needed to consider whether there were adequate checks and balances to ensure the safety of asylum seekers in immigration detention. The Guardian’s analysis of the Nauru files revealed that Wilson Security did not disclose up to 16 allegations of sexual assault and child abuse in an earlier inquiry into Nauru in the senate.

Source: The Guardian August 13, 2016 09:40 UTC