Australian PM says won't bow to 'moral blackmail' over asylum seekers


  • World
  • Wednesday, 09 Jul 2014

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday vowed not to bow to "moral blackmail" following reports of suicide bids by female asylum seekers at a detention centre on Christmas Island.

Opposition Greens lawmaker Sarah Hanson-Young, whose party is one of the strongest critics of the government's "Operation Sovereign Borders" immigration policy, said she had spoken to people inside the centre who reported that almost ten mothers were on suicide watch this week.

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