UN member countries rightly criticized #Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers and questioned why incarceration rates of First Nations peoples remain so high at last night's UN review of our human rights record https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/01/21/australia-address-abuses-raised-un-review

More than 40 nations questioned Australia’s policies toward asylum seekers and refugees, from Brazil to Germany, South Korea to the US. Among the concerns raised was Australia’s continued use of offshore processing and prolonged detention for asylum seekers.

Twenty-seven countries urged Australia to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility, currently 10 years old, a policy that disproportionately affects Indigenous children. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child recommends that countries increase their minimum age to 14