Australian Broadcasting Corporation   Investigative TV
journalism at its best  ...About Woomera  Debbie Whitmont
penetrates the secrecy that has shrouded the Woomera detention
centre, revealing its traumatic impact on both staff and
detainees.   PROTESTORS: Yes, yes, freedom!  DEBBIE WHITMONT,
REPORTER: These pictures were filmed by guards at Woomera
Detention Centre in February last year. They show scenes
children, adults and staff witnessed, sometimes daily, in an
Australian detention centre. For Woomera, this isn't an unusual
day. There are demonstrations in three of the compounds and,
here, a 19-year-old Afghan man has climbed into the razor wire.
MALE GUARD: Just got a CERT going on up's been going for a
while. Got people up on roofs of buildings in three compounds.
One's crawled inside the razor wire up on top of the fence, he's
just sitting there.  DEBBIE WHITMONT: The man on the razor wire
says that if he can't see the Department of Immigration about
his visa, he'll kill himself. He starts cutting hi