DETENTION CENTRE OR "OUT-OF-HOME CARE" HOSTEL?

With child abuse rife in Alice Springs, some of the buildings from the former Woomera detention centre are to be used to house "at risk" Aboriginal children:

The federal government is planning to house Aboriginal children removed from town camps in Alice Springs in demountable buildings which will be relocated from the now defunct Woomera immigration detention centre.

These "out-of-home care" facilities will apparently be similar to the government's existing hostel-style immigration detention centres:

The children will be supervised in ‘hostel’-style accommodation by federal government appointed staff. The government is considering placing security fencing around the compounds and posting security guards on the premises.

This will, of course, eventually give rise to the "out-of-home care" generation and lots of whining and lawsuits.