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Children denied detention release

The Family Court of Australia rejected an application to release five children from Australian detention centres held with their parents pending processing for refugee status.
Lawyers for the three girls and two boys, aged between five and 15, sought their immediate release on an interim basis until a full trial of the siblings' case started next month.
But Justice Steven Strickland ruled the children, from the same family, would remain in detention until the full trial started.
'It seems to me that there has been a head-long rush into these interim proceedings in an attempt to have these children released ... but there has been no or little thought about what it means for these children,' Justice Strickland said.
'I'm not satisfied that it's in the best interests of the children to release the children.'"