Today is Universal Children’s Day which is celebrated around the world to honour and promote the welfare and rights of children.

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All children deserve the right to life, health, education, family, protection from violence and discrimination. All children deserve a future of freedom and safety. Not just the white ones, not just the ones born into wealthy countries like Australia. All of them!

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It’s timely and worth thinking about as we keep in mind the 17 children and their families still being held on Nauru, simply because their parents wanted to seek a better future and life for their children.

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Whatever your thoughts on Australia’s immigration challenge, I think most decent human beings can agree that the conditions these children have been held in and the damage inflicted for YEARS are unacceptable and shameful. Here is hoping that increasing pressure on our government will bring these kids out of this situation to Australia, where they can be given all the various treatments they desperately need.

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Grandma Z and I are #BlueforNauru in solidarity with these children and their families who deserve better.