Girl sent on own to Nauru: advocates

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 20 November 2013 | 18.59

Scott Morrison's office is checking claims an unaccompanied teenage girl has been sent to Nauru. Source: AAP

AN unaccompanied teenage girl has been sent to Australia's detention centre on Nauru for processing, refugee advocates claim.

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre spokeswoman Pamela Curr cited witnesses as saying the girl arrived by plane on Nauru on Wednesday.

"We have a witness reporting that a girl aged 15 or 16 came off a plane this morning," Ms Curr told AAP.

"She came off the plane first, on her own, unaccompanied.

"We've accepted the information (from the witness) because he is a local who gives us good information."

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison's office has been contacted and further information is being sought.

If correct, the girl may be the first unaccompanied minor to be sent to Nauru under the federal government's offshore processing regime.

Under government policy, anyone seeking asylum who arrives in Australia by boat will not be settled here and will be sent on to Nauru or Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.

Labor frontbencher Tony Burke said on Wednesday that when he was immigration minister he did not transfer unaccompanied minors to Nauru because the facilities weren't "up to scratch".

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison told reporters last Friday there were three unaccompanied minors on Nauru.

He warned anyone thinking of coming to Australia by boat without a visa that being an unaccompanied minor would not prevent them being sent offshore, neither would a health condition.

He said if anyone who was fit enough to get on a boat was fit enough to end up in offshore processing.


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