03/08/2026
⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING: Child sexual abuse, immigration detention and institutional trauma
Please sign the petition calling on the Australian Government to stop the deportation of Jawad Rasul and let him stay in Australia.
The petition contains deeply distressing references to child sexual abuse. We will not repeat those details here. But this must be said clearly:
When the state places a child inside a system it created, controlled and funded, it assumes an absolute duty to keep that child safe.
When that system fails, deportation is not justice.
It is not accountability, is not healing, it is not redress, it’s not justice.
It is an attempt to send away the person carrying the consequences and pretend the government’s responsibility disappears with them.
Australia spends billions maintaining immigration detention.
In 2025–26, $1.37 billion was allocated to onshore detention and compliance. Offshore costs were estimated at $971.6 million more than $9 million for every person held on Nauru.
For what?
To warehouse trauma?
To compound harm, then punish people for carrying it?
Australia cannot fund systems that break people and then deport them instead of accepting responsibility for what those systems have done.
Redress means safety.
Redress means stable legal status.
Redress means trauma-informed care.
Redress means accountability.
Redress means the chance to build a future.
Stop Jawad’s deportation.
Let him stay.
Please sign. Please share. Do not let the government quietly remove another person while refusing to confront the damage created in its name.
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