Yay!!! for Sarah Hanson-Young. Sometimes it seems like she's the only one that cares about the plight of the child detainees.
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When you're doing your Christmas shopping this year, please spare a thought for the children who won't be celebrating because they're locked in immigration detention.

This year we're asking you to, once again, buy an extra toy for one of these children who need your help. Right now there are 4500 children who are either locked in detention centres in Australia, languishing on Nauru or living in limbo in the community.

Will you donate a gift for a child in detention? Let’s show them that they have not been forgotten this Christmas. Click here for a list of the most requested toys and goods.

Despite the Senate recently passing Greens amendments to a government bill that would see children and their families released from detention centres in Australia by Christmas, Malcolm Turnbull failed to follow through and put the bill into law, so the majority will still be detained in centres across Australia.

Will you help to put a smile on a child’s face this Christmas and donate a toy?

Suggestions for suitable gifts include:

Games – UNO, cards, chess sets, backgammon, checkers, quoits, snakes & ladders, ludo, board games

Sporting goods - rubber balls, tennis balls, soccer balls, yoyos (no skipping ropes)

Reading material – books, magazines, puzzles, dictionaries, English grammar books

Please note that in order for gifts to be accepted by detention centres they must be in brand new condition. Click here for a full list of acceptable gifts for children living in detention and in the community.

Please send the toys, unwrapped, to my electorate office at Level 7 147 Pirie Street, Adelaide, SA, 5000.

Please keep in mind that toys will only be accepted until Friday the 18th of December.

This is the third consecutive year that we've run this toy drive and every time it brings joy to thousands of children who otherwise would have gone without. We will keep fighting to have all children released from immigration detention so that hopefully, next year, they can have the greatest gift of all; freedom.

Yours in hope,



Sarah Hanson-Young

P.S. We know that detention is no place for children

It was the idiot left (including her) that put them there.

mothra wrote on Dec 4^th, 2015 at 2:58pm:


Goody Goody better let SHY know 

double plus good wrote on Dec 4^th, 2015 at 3:04pm:



It doesn't mean there wasn't always a very strong resistence to the idea Double, From the left. Including SHY.

Now are you going to buy a toy?

mothra wrote on Dec 4^th, 2015 at 3:07pm:
Imagine one of the people who facilitated people smuggling (with the result being detention), now moralising about it. It's sickening. SHY should hang her head in shame for all of the people who drowned because of the part she played in overturning John Howard's measures.

aussie100percent wrote on Dec 4^th, 2015 at 3:13pm:
It's because they want people smuggling. Shy and people like her want Australia to be the saviour of the 3rd world. They'd never admit it though. Some of the people on here think the same way.

I am looking out for our OWN children we have many children that fall through the cracks .. FAR FAR to many for such an affluent country we should be ashamed...

so thats where my money and donations are going...

sorry pansi if that sounds callous...

but I dont buy SHY...shes a member of the

dont do as I do
do as I SAY.. PARTY...

dont tell me you think SHY is doing this for any other reason than a vote or two.....PULLLLLEASE..

I am sure its just her name on the bottom of the page.

Redmond Neck wrote on Dec 5^th, 2015 at 8:25am:



you do have a point red....funny you dont see Muslim children playing with toys do you??...

I cant imagine Barbie being high on the list.