Two boys, who are destined to be sent back to offshore detention in Nauru, have had some respite, spending the day at the zoo with Victorian premier Daniel Andrews.
"I can't show you their faces, but I can tell you a bit about these two beautiful kids who I took to the Melbourne Zoo," Andrews wrote in a powerful Facebook post on Monday night.
"They're ordinary Victorians in almost every way. They go to their local primary school; they laugh, they learn, they play. But one thing is very different: any day now, these two boys will be deported to Nauru and will stay there indefinitely."