Detention centres were set up on Christmas Island, Manus Island and Nauru Island for processing asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, China and Vietnam. A recent report revealed that suicide attempts and hunger strikes were common, and children were vulnerable to mental health episodes and growing more depressed the longer they were held. (Source: International Health and Medical Services). Children suffer especially acutely, from bed wetting, nightmares, ongoing effects of trauma and torture in previous countries, as well as ‘situational crisis’ from their current detention. On 15 October there was a renewed call for a guardian for children in immigration detention by two of the country's top welfare and overseas aid groups, saying the Australian Immigration Minister, Peter Dutton, has failed in his duty of care. Earlier this week, thousands of doctors at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital refused to discharge asylum-seeking children back into the care of immigration detention centre operators. See also: http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/17/extended-detention-worsening-depression-on-nauru-and-manus-island