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Australian psychologist gives account of life inside Manus Island and Nauru detention centres
An Australian psychologist who has worked at offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru gives an account of life inside the facilities..
Psychologist and traumatologist Paul Stevenson has treated field trauma for 25 years — including in the aftermath of the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami — and visited the Manus Island and Nauru offshore detention centres on 16 occasions, for two to three weeks at a time, between 2014 and 2015…