Same but different: Bali Nine and children in detention

Tony Abbott said in response to the recent Human Rights Commission report that: "the only way to ensure we have no children in detention is to stop the boats."

I would argue that the only way we will be able to have no children in detention is to change the language.

Once we humanize people seeking asylum by describing them accurately and normalising their human rights, they become one of us.

I argue that it all starts, quite simply, with the media's choice of words.