Doctors refused to discharge the one-year-old, who was being treated for serious burns, unless she was provided a "suitable home environment".

The standoff sparked protests outside Brisbane's Lady Cilento Hospital in support of the doctors.

Asha will now stay with her family, including her mother, in community detention. An immigration officer will monitor the family and their movements will be restricted.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said she would be sent to the offshore processing centre on Nauru once her medical and legal problems surrounding the circumstances of her injury were solved.

"We are not going to allow people smugglers to get out a message that if you seek assistance in an Australian hospital, that somehow that is your formula to becoming an Australian citizen," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

"I couldn't be any clearer - once the medical assistance has been provide and the legal issues resolved, people will go back to Nauru."

'Pre-planned move'

Mr Dutton denied the move was prompted by the protests and said it was pre-planned.

Earlier, Mr Dutton had told reporters: "The advice I have received is the doctors from the hospital have said the baby's treatment has concluded and they would be happy for the baby to go out into community detention.

"That's what we have proposed all along but at some point, if people have matters finalised in Australia, they will be returning to Nauru."

But refugee advocates hailed baby Asha's release into the community as a victory against the government's hard-line detention policy.

In early February, the High Court upheld Australia's asylum policy as legal under the country's constitution.

The ruling paved the way for around 267 people, including 37 babies, to be deported to Nauru.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-35627675

 

The Government's latest thought bubble, which I fully expect them to run up the mast and then run away from after the public begin throwing rocks at it, as it did with the GST, is to scrap compulsory employer super contributions for low income earners. Why should poor people save for their retirement, you can almost hear the last unlamented treasurer say, when most of them don't live that long anyway?

Of course, not everyone has such a poor regard for the underprivileged, as shown by the picket line around the Lady Cilento Hospital in Brisbane, that sought to prevent Immigration from deporting little baby Asha back to Nauru. People power has managed to stop them from sending this poor, burnt little child and her mother back to hell — for now.

Of course, as Peter Dutton pointed out, this may still change. Demonstrating his grasp of the situation, Dutton added a clear warning to all those militant babies out there by letting them know that the Government's position was firm, despite the attempted "hijack" of Asha's case by human rights advocates. What part about "baby" does this Government not understand? 

Speaking of people power. Good hearted people have enabled victims of the Catholic Church to travel to the Vatican to meet reluctant tourist Cardinal George Pell as he gives evidence via hyperlink. Things just seem to get worst for Pell, with a report this week of Victoria Police investigating allegations concerning him personally. I wonder why Big George doesn't want to come to Australia?

read more: https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/negative-mal-big-george-and-baby-asha,8703

 

 

Supporters of asylum seeker baby Asha have released hospital records stating the baby accidentally poured a bowl of hot water over herself, after media reports suggested the mother may have deliberately injured her child to get to Australia.

The advocates have accused the Turnbull government of playing "dirty politics" by leaking details of an investigation by Queensland Police and other sensitive information to the media to damage the reputation of the child's mother, as the government faces huge public pressure to let the family stay in Australia permanently.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has been contacted for comment. 

The Courier Mail on Tuesday reported that the baby's mother was interviewed by police after a guard claimed she admitted the girl was purposely burnt to get to Australia.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/peter-dutton-accused-of-dirty-politics-after-report-suggested-mother-deliberately-burnt-baby-asha-20160222-gn0wif.html#ixzz40woCSvv8
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AND GUESS WHAT: IT'S A NEWS CORP/TURDBALL GOVERNMENT DISINFORMATION CONSPIRACY

The Courier-Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia. Owned by News Corp Australia, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, and it is printed at Murarrie, in Brisbane's eastern suburbs. It is available for purchase throughout Queensland, most regions of Northern New South Wales and parts of the Northern Territory.Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Courier-Mail

 

 

Using a little child as a political football is a manipulative and irresponsible act. Instead of taking the law into their own hands, asylum seeker activists should voice their concerns at the ballot box, writes Terry Barnes.

Over the past fortnight, Australian mainstream and social media have been convulsed by a small Nepalese baby in a hospital in Brisbane.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-24/barnes-baby-asha-and-the-political-grandstanding-of-letthemstay/7193172

Gus: You can trust Terry Barnes — as a RIGHT WING policy consultant, former senior Howard RIGHT WING government adviser and a weekly RIGHT WING columnist for The Drum — to mention "political" football from the left, when RIGHT WING minister Peter Dutton is the one kicking the ball in rabid deception.

 

Meanwhile the reality is:

 

Just as the 2001 "children overboard" incident became a defining moment in recent political history, so too could the Baby Asha debate. A brief opportunity for change exists and we must seize it, writes Jeff Sparrow.

"A number of children have been thrown overboard, again with the intention of putting us under duress."

That was then immigration minister Philip Ruddock on October 7, 2001.

He was referring, of course, to the interception of the asylum seeker vessel Olong by the Australian navy's Adelaide, an incident that culminated with the decrepit refugee craft falling apart and depositing its passengers in the sea.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-24/sparrow-baby-asha-and-the-shadow-of-'children-overboard'/7194608

ALL THIS WAS A DECEPTION BY THE RIGHT WING HOWARD GOVERNMENT, WITH PETER REITH AND PHILIP RUDDOCK AT THE FRONT OF THE DISINFORMATION...