Aussies Quarantined On Christmas Island Discover How Shitty Conditions Are For Asylum Seekers

Australian evacuees from the coronavirus hotspot in China have been quarantined on Christmas Island for a few days now, and have been given a look at what asylum seekers have been complaining about for years.

Christmas Island is best known for housing Australia’s offshore detention centre, and for years the people trapped there have complained about how shitty things are.

They’re shitty enough that we got blasted by the UN a few years ago, not that the international condemnation did much to change things.

If the people in quarantine think conditions are bad, imagine being an asylum seeker there? The place sounds worse than a school camp.

— Dwayne ⏳ (@AbolitionOf) February 5, 2020

Imagine being trapped there, and in worse conditions on Manus and Nauru…..for 7 YEARS…..
Many people are in that situation.

— 💧pru (@prudinx) February 5, 2020

Around 240 Australians were evacuated from China on Monday, and another 35 arrived today. They must remain quarantined within the Christmas Island detention centre for 14 days before they can return to the mainland.

Several evacuees have spoken to the ABC complaining of poor hygiene, dodgy internet, bad food and limited facilities.

One evacuee, Daniel Ou Yang, has also documented his evacuation on TikTok.

The Christmas Island centre closed in October 2018, but four months later the government spent $180 million to reopen it. Up until now, the only detainees have been the Tamil family from Biloela who the government are fighting to deport.

The National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre is monitoring the coronavirus evacuees, and director Len Notaras said the facility where they people are being housed should meet their needs.

“I won’t say that it is a salubrious one, but it is modern, and it is clean.”

So far more than 500 people have died from the coronavirus globally. There have been 14 confirmed cases of the virus on Australia’s mainland.