Temporary protection visas and child refugees

• 1 Academic Unit of General Practice and Community Health, Australian National University Medical School, PO Box 254, Jamison Centre, Jamison, ACT 2614
• 2 Department of Psychology, Australian National University, Acton, ACT.

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• 1. Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs. Fact Sheet 60. Australia’s Refugee and Humanitarian Program. Available at: www.immi.gov.au/facts/60refugee.htm (accessed Mar 2004).
• 2. Minister of Immigration. Border protection. Available at: www.minister.immi.gov.au/borders/detention/fs_64_tpv.htm (accessed Mar 2004).
• 3. Manning S. Surviving, not thriving. Refugee children granted temporary protection visas. Canberra: ANU Internship Program, May 2003.
• 4. United Nations General Assembly Official Records (UNGAOR). The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Resolution 25, 44th Session. New York: United Nations, 1989.
• 5. Friedmand RJ, Chase-Lansdale L. Chronic adversities. In: Rutter M, Taylor F, eds. Child and adolescent psychiatry. London: Blackwell, 2002: 261-276