By Ebony Birchall. Healthcare professionals engaged in Australian immigration detention have publicly advocated against the use of detention for over three decades. The Australian Government’s policy of mandatory and prolonged detention is designed to deter asylum seekers from coming to Australia by boat. However, this policy is controversial as prolonged detention of asylum seekers has […]
Category: Migration
Does our preoccupation with resilience mean we must tolerate the morally intolerable?
By Rebecca Farrington, Louise Tomkow, Gabrielle Prager, and Kitty Worthing. Healthcare professionals are increasingly expected to be hardy and ‘suck it up’ to survive in complex and demoralising workplaces. As NHS clinicians, we saw staffing shortages and limited resources firsthand during the COVID-19 pandemic. These experiences magnified our scepticism about the onus on us, as […]