There has been a moving vigil taking place outside the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Brisbane for the past 10 days. Night and day, individuals of all ages and professions were supporting the decision of hospital staff in their refusal to return baby "Asha" to the Nauru detention centre. This effort was vindicated on Sunday when Immigration Minister Peter Dutton confirmed Asha would be released into community detention.

I abhor Australia's immigration laws and acknowledge that the public attention this saga has stimulated is a great positive. However, I am also concerned the demands of protesters have been short-sighted.

Asha suffered accidental hot water burns while on Nauru – burns that required transfer to a larger hospital as they were too severe to be managed on the island. Though staff had treated and medically cleared Asha, she was not ethically cleared for discharge due to a lack of a "suitable home environment".