Former Home Affairs official begs MPs to remove asylum seekers from Nauru

Shaun Hanns says detention of people on Manus Island and Nauru is ‘not just tragic but meaningless’

An official from the Department of Home Affairs who quit his job in the refugee processing area a week ago has written to federal parliamentarians pleading for the removal of asylum seekers from Nauru.

Shaun Hanns told Guardian Australia he had worked in the home affairs department since 2013 before resigning “because it got to the point where what is going on became too insane”.

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