Archive for: October 2016

  1. A way forward: Tala’s story

    Harry Minas and Arnold Zable   http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/how-one-vce-student-defied-all-odds-to-sit-the-highstakes-exam-20161021-gs88cf.html This moving story appeared in the Sunday Age, October 23. Written by Fairfax journalist Timna Jacks. It is a …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/mrsp/2016/10/31/a-way-forward-talas-story

  2. Harry Minas discussing the Amnesty International Report on Nauru on 3RRR, Melbourne Independent Radio 20/10/16

    To hear the radio interview, click on http://www.rrr.org.au/whats-going-on/news/asylum-seeker-amnesty/ To read the transcript, please scroll down.

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/mrsp/2016/10/27/harry-minas-on-the-amnesty-international-report-on-nauru-breakfasters-on-triple-r-melbourne-independent-radio

  3. Behrouz Boochani Social Justice Award. The nightmare continues—disturbing new developments in Offshore imprisonment.

    On Tuesday October 11 I attended the ‘Diaspora Symposium Refugee and Asylum Seeker Discourse’ held in the NSW parliament house. Behrouz Boochani was honoured with a …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/mrsp/2016/10/18/behrouz-boochani-social-justice-award-the-nightmare-continues-disturbing-new-developments-in-offshore-imprisonment

  4. Manus Island Crisis

    Horrifying though it has been, something darker still is being acted out on Manus Island. The ABC’s Pacific Beat reports that despite the fact that in …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/mrsp/2016/10/10/manus-island-crisis

  5. A journey from and back to the free world

    We contacted the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation centre over a week in advance to set up a visit but, despite follow up calls, we didn’t know …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/mrsp/2016/10/03/a-journey-from-and-back-to-the-free-world