Dianne Hiles

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]

Dianne Hiles

AM
Alma materUniversity of Sydney
OccupationAccountant
Human rights activist
Political partyAustralian Greens

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.<ref name="Greens">[2]

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

References
  1. "Greens choose refugee advocate as candidate for federal seat of Sydney". News.com.au. News Pty Limited. 28 March 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  2. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National (2011-04-15), Children in detention: breaking the rules, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, retrieved 9 December 2018
  3. "Intentional damage". Newsmonth. April 2014. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  4. "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. 2005-07-29. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  7. "Last children leave detention centre", Asia Africa Intelligence Wire, Financial Times Ltd, 2005-07-29, retrieved 9 December 2018
  8. "Detention of children 'cruel and inhumane'.(news)(Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission )", Australian Nursing Journal, Australian Nursing Federation, 12 (1): 6(1), 2004-07-01, ISSN 1320-3185
  9. McEwan, Ann-Maree (July 2014), "Time to restore hope", Newsmonth, 34 (4): 9, ISSN 0728-4845
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