What are our "closest friends" Australia doing to kiwis awaiting deportation? Letting them literally rot away in prison due to substandard medical care:
A New Zealander held at an Australian immigration detention centre will find out today if his leg has to be amputated, he says.
The Type-2 diabetic blames substandard medical care in the Sydney lock-up of Villawood for his plight.
A human rights lawyer is calling on the New Zealand government to step in.
How did he get this way? He was denied basic medical care for months, turning a trivial injury into a life-threatening one. And now he may lose his leg due to Australia's policy of wilful neglect towards those in its gulags.
Worse, the New Zealand government just sat idly by and let this happen. Despite John Key's assurances that the government is taking a close interest, our people in Australia don't get consular assistance or even communications. They're just abandoned. Wouldn't it be nice to have a government which stood up to Australia, rather than crawling to them?
