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Two New Zealanders who have spent three nights holed up on the roof of a Sydney detention centre have vowed to stay there without eating until the Australian election.
Bruce Ngaromo, 32, and Montana Kelly, 27, cousins formerly from the Hawke's Bay, and Vietnamese Van Nguyen, 30, climbed over razorwire to get onto the roof of the Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney.
The election is expected in the spring.
The cousins were protesting their imminent deportation to New Zealand and demanding better conditions for people being held in the immigration detention centre.
Ngaromo said the three were cold and hungry after another night on sleeping on the pitched roof.
"We are doing this for all the detainees in Australia," he told Radio New Zealand.
"We are here, asking for certain things we are entitled to - the food needs to be improved . [We want] day leaves, excursions and activities.
"We'd like some courses, to address our offending behaviours and we want our families to have more rights - to have us, their sons, fathers and brothers with them."
- NZPA
