Dianne Hiles

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Dianne Hiles

AM
Alma mater University of Sydney
Occupation(s)Accountant
Human rights activist
Political party Australian Greens

Dianne Marian Hiles AM is an Australian accountant and human rights and refugee activist who co-founded ChilOut, [1] [2] which has advocated for the release of children and families from immigration detention centres since 2001. [3] In recognition of her work with this organisation, as well as with Amnesty International, board of A Just Australia, [4] and the Evatt Foundation, Hiles was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2010. [5]

Career

Hiles has been a qualified accountant for over 30 years. She holds a Masters in Human Rights from the University of Sydney. She was the mother of a four-year-old [4] when she viewed the ABC TV Four Corners program about six-year-old refugee child Shayan Badraie, who had been held in immigration detention for two years. In response, Hiles co-founded the organisation ChilOut, an abbreviation of "Children Out of Detention", in 2001. [6] She became known as its spokesperson, [4] and as its representative, she visited detention centres on Christmas Island [7] and in the Northern Territory, and publicised conditions of children and families held there. [8] [9] She has been critical of the bipartisan agreement of the ALP and LNP to off-shore processing of asylum seekers, and the detention of children. [1] [2]

Hiles was the Australian Greens candidate for the Division of Sydney at the 2013 federal election. [1]

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  2. 1 2 Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National (17 April 2011), Children in detention: breaking the rules, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (published 15 April 2011), retrieved 9 December 2018
  3. ↑ "Intentional damage". Newsmonth. April 2014. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 "Bio's - A Just Australia: Biography - Dianne Hiles". StudyLib. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  5. ↑ The Australian Honours Secretariat. "The Queen's Birthday 2010 Honours List" (PDF). Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  6. ↑ "Last children in detention freed today". The Age. 29 July 2005. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
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  8. ↑ "Detention of children 'cruel and inhumane'.(news)(Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission )", Australian Nursing Journal, 12 (1), Australian Nursing Federation: 6(1), 1 July 2004, ISSN   1320-3185
  9. ↑ McEwan, Ann-Maree (July 2014), "Time to restore hope", Newsmonth, 34 (4): 9, ISSN   0728-4845
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