Australia is my home country and what it does to asylum seekers (and has been doing for many years now) is a sickening shame and a blatant violation of human rights. Have a read of Amnesty International Australia's report on one of these "processing" centres (read: prison camps) before you repeat the vile self-serving rubbish that the Australian Government spouts to persuade the public to believe that this is a just solution to the problems of people smuggling and border protection:
Australia’s regime of cruelty in Nauru - Amnesty International Australia
You can read more here from Amnesty about the problem in general and the "deliberate system of abuse" created by the Australian government:
Refugees and asylum seekers - Amnesty International Australia
The term "human trafficking", by the way, correctly refers to the transporting of people
against their wills for forced labour or sexual exploitation. That is not the same as people smuggling, which is what is happening in the case of refugees trying to get to Australia or other countries by any means possible. It's still a crime, but a different one — and in this case, regardless of all the rhetoric about stopping people smugglers, the treatment given to their victims (i.e. the refugees) belies any supposedly noble intentions on Australia's part.
There is also no such thing as an "illegal" asylum seeker. The vast majority of these people who are trying to reach Australia are legitimate refugees fleeing war zones, tyrannical regimes or other serious threats to their lives or freedom — otherwise why would they go to such desperate lengths? The smugglers who promise to get them there are acting illegally, BUT THE ASYLUM SEEKERS THEMSELVES ARE NOT.
Shame on the Australian government (successive governments, sadly) and shame on everyone who falls for their pernicious lies and thinks this travesty is any kind of just or humane solution.
Thank you, Naveed, for sharing the truth about it.