Ruth Halbert
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Blog: Dear Prime Minister

On July 30 2016 I started writing letters to the Prime Minister of Australia to protest against the imprisonment and torture of the asylum seekers in the offshore detention centres of Manus Island and Nauru. I started with the intention of writing a letter a day for every person in detention until they are all freed. There are more than 1800 asylum seekers in off shore detention. These are those letters and any response from Mr Turnbull.

End offshore detention

Dear Prime Minister,

Where is the food?

Australia's prisoners on Manus Island have to queue for more than an hour for each meal, have it passed through a small hole in a wall, food runs out long before all the men have been fed, and what food there is is often rotten, mouldy and inedible.

"This is a sample of the meals given to men in Manus. It costs Australian taxpayers nearly half a million dollars for each detained person each year. Or about $4,000 per person per day." Lynne Murphy https://www.facebook.com/lynne.murphy.148/posts/1…

"This is a sample of the meals given to men in Manus. It costs Australian taxpayers nearly half a million dollars for each detained person each year. Or about $4,000 per person per day." Lynne Murphy https://www.facebook.com/lynne.murphy.148/posts/10154501915596769?pnref=story

When I rang Minister Dutton's office about the lack of food on 23 March I was told that the detainees have three square meals a day and unlimited access to food. Where is the food?

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