'You are terrorists, you make bombs': racist taunts help keep Nauru refugee kids out of school

By Nicole Hasham
Updated July 30 2016 - 9:08am, first published July 29 2016 - 9:46pm
Asylum seekers get a recreation break away from the camp on Nauru. Photo: Angela Wylie
Asylum seekers get a recreation break away from the camp on Nauru. Photo: Angela Wylie

Almost nine in 10 asylum seeker and refugee children at Nauru reportedly do not attend school and have been accused by local students of being "terrorists" and bomb-makers, leaving already vulnerable young people uneducated and badly disadvantaged.