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I've been very unwell for a couple of months. I'm so far behind on posting refugee updates that it's hard to imagine catching up completely. But let's see if I can't start with some of the more positive news.

Offshore detention case to be brought to UN against Australian Government as families hope for reunion (ABC, 216 October 2018) The Human Rights Law Centre argues that separating families is illegal under international law.

Manus Island refugees and asylum seekers petition PNG chief justice over 'unfair' delay (GA, 3 October 2018). "Crucial judgment could allow group to seek compensation and the chance to be resettled in other countries."

'The sky doesn't fall in': refugees integrate well in Australia, survey finds (GA, 14 August 2018). "Contrary to recent comments from the multicultural affairs minister, Alan Tudge, that migrants who reside together “largely communicate in their mother tongue [and] are slower integrating”, the research found that refugees were welcomed by their new communities, found it “easy” to get along, and felt a strong sense of belonging to their new homes."

The project Pauline Hanson called a ‘disgrace’ just proved her wrong (GA, 3 August 2018). "Extremists claimed that Syrian refugees would increase crime and fear in Eltham. The opposite happened."

Meanwhile Up Over: Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees (New York Times, 18 September 2018). "[A] study by the Department of Health and Human Services that found that refugees brought in $63 billion more in government revenues over the past decade than they cost."

voteforfreekids.com has asked every Federal MP their stance on children in detention.

Ending the nation's shame – Wilkie tables Refugee Protection Bill (media release, 18 July 2018). "This Act enables the establishment of a network of centres, located in and run by Asia Pacific countries including Australia, where asylum seekers can go to be registered, have their immediate humanitarian needs met and lodge a preference for country of re-settlement. If the asylum seeker selects Australia, and is within the specified quota, this Act establishes a process for assessing their claim in Australia with appropriate oversight, limited timeframes and judicial review. The Act does not allow mandatory detention and prioritises the applicant’s immediate needs and refugee and international human rights law."

Manus Island and post-traumatic stress (The Saturday Paper, 2-8 June 2018). Former detainee Imran Mohammad, now in the US, describes the psychological impact of indefinite detention.

Family separation: 'I'm dying a slow death': Hazara refugees plead for release from Nauru (GA, 8 April 2018). "Narges and Daryoush, who are suffering ill health in detention, want to be reunited with their mother who they haven’t seen for four years after she was taken to Australia for treatment."

'I am old. I only wanted a small life. I have no hope left' (GA, 28 March 2018). "Despite decades working in humanitarian crises around the world, the suffering I witnessed on Nauru is an immense shock." | UN official visiting Nauru detention centre concerned about 'shocking' mental health situation (ABC, 27 March 2018).

Good news, sort of! Australia agrees to take seriously ill refugee girl from Nauru as case reaches court (GA, 5 July 2018) | Court orders Nauru refugee and son, both ill, to be flown to Australia (GA, 13 July 2017). The judge ordered they not be separated and not be returned to Nauru. As columnist Ben Doherty reminds us: Each time Australia delays bringing a sick child from Nauru, the stakes get higher (GA, 11 July 2018). Crikey argues that Australia has weaponised suicide and Peter Dutton just admitted it (25 June 2018).

Unsurprising news from the US: Detaining Immigrant Kids Is Now a Billion-Dollar Industry (Snopes.com / AP, 12 July 2018). As Down Under, so Up Over.

Definitely good news: Brisbane mum granted 12-month extension from deportation (SBS, 27 June 2018). "A ministerial intervention has stopped the deportation of a Brisbane-based Filipino mother who was facing separation from her eight year-old son." This isn't a refugee story, but in a world full of cruelty, every small kindness is to be celebrated.

Manus Island: I found a horrific 'living graveyard' (news.com.au, 9 July 2018). An extract from Asylum Seeker Resource Centre founder Kon Karapanagiotidis's book The Power of Hope.

'They are breaking him': the stateless refugee Australia may never release (GA, 4 July 2018). A Kurdish refugee from Iran arrived in 2013 at the age of 16 and is still in detention.

Asylum seeker detainees can keep mobile phones, federal court rules (ABC, 22 July 2018)

'I didn’t know how to survive': the refugees and asylum seekers hit by Coalition cuts (GA, 12 June 2018)

Neither Australian Or PNG Gov’t Informed Family Of Man Who Died On Manus Island (Pedestrian, 23 May 2018). Good gods, they can't even bureaucrat properly.

Doctors beg Australian Border Force to move terminally ill refugee off Nauru (GA, 23 May 2018). I thought perhaps the problem was that the dying man has family in Afghanistan and could apply to bring them to Australia, but apparently they won't even send him to Taiwan, which doesn't accept refugees. (The former head of the ABF has admitted that it has a history of blocking medically necessary transfers.)

White South African farmers won't get special treatment, despite Peter Dutton's earlier claims (ABC, 22 May 2018). I wonder if this was ever a serious proposal, or just dog-whistling.

By now you've probably heard that a refugee took his own life on Manus Island yesterday. He was a Rohingya, had been found to be a genuine refugee, and had epilepsy, for which he had not received treatment for two years despite urgent requests from the medical community. In my view, the Australian government is not just responsible for this man's death; they are responsible for his murder.

In an odd coincidence, I had just finished reading the following article about the Rohingya when I logged on to share the link and read the news from Manus: Murderous Majorities (New York Review of Books, 18 January 2018). It positions the genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar in the context of majoritarian politics in South Asia. I think it contains a warning for the West: "Majoritarianism insists on different tiers of citizenship. Members of the majority faith and culture are viewed as the nation’s true citizens. The rest are courtesy citizens, guests of the majority, expected to behave well and deferentially." That idea, that some Australians are more equal than others, is strikingly familiar.

More on the Rohingya:

Understanding the Rohingya Refugee Crisis (MSF, 2 January 2018)

Explainer: Who are the Rohingya Muslims? (SBS, 24 October 2017)

The Genocide of Rohingyas in Myanmar from the Australian Migrant Prison on Manus Island (Funambulist Nov/Dec 2017), reproduced by Manus refugee Imran Mohammad in his Facebook.

Faces of the Rohingya (SBS, n.d.). Interviews with Rohingya people living in Melbourne.

On an unrelated note, my ego swelled at the discovery that a letter of mine to the paper (almost certainly the Sydney Morning Herald) about the Tampa was reproduced in a 2007 thesis about Iranian immigrants and refugees. Letters to the editor - especially if they're concise and factual - are an excellent way to get pro-human rights viewpoints in front of readers.

Combined Refugee Action Group reports that there was a fire in the Hillside detention centre on Manus. No-one was hurt, but the men have been left without beds or food.

Asylum seekers 'face destitution' as income support and housing cut off (GA, 17 May 2018). "The federal government is taking away income support and housing from up to 100 refugees and asylum seekers from Manus Island and Nauru who are currently in Australia for medical treatment. The group... includes families, elderly people and pregnant women..." Vinnies characterises this cut as part of a general move by the government to divest itself of its legal responsibility to care for refugees, outsourcing that responsibility to charities and community groups. "Most of those targeted this week were families with young children, who were given six weeks to find new accommodation and a source of income."

Australia's cut to healthcare on Manus Island 'inexplicable', Amnesty says (GA, 18 May 2018). "Group criticises counselling services cut when Manus refugees have one of highest mental illness rates in world." Refugees with physical medical problems needing urgent attention have been left waiting for months or years. IMHO all this is entirely explicable: our government hopes the sick men will either die on Manus, or return to their home countries and die there, out of sight.

As others see us: There's No Escape From Australia's Refugee Gulag (Foreign Policy, 30 April 2018).

Following up on the lies about "African gangs": The truth about crime and ethnicity (The Age, 28 April 2018).

The gay, transgender and bisexual men on Manus are forced into silence (GA, 16 May 2018). "No one knows how many gay, transgender or bisexual refugees live on Manus, but what is clear is that the suffering they experienced in their countries has been repeated on Manus in a disastrous way."

Children with gender dysphoria no longer have to seek court approval to undergo surgery (ABC, March 16 2018). "The Family Court has decided it will no longer intervene in cases where children with gender dysphoria have the permission of their parents and treating doctors to undergo surgery."

The hidden $100,000 price tag on being transgender (ABC, 2 March 2018). Transitioning ain't cheap.

On Liking Women (N+1 Magazine 30, winter 2018). Long, entertaining and insightful look at transphobia and feminism, often very funny. Includes a quote from Robin Morgan I've long puzzled over: "... thirty-two years of suffering in this androcentric society, and of surviving, have earned me the title 'woman'". I myself didn't have to do anything to earn the title; it was assigned to me by "this androcentric society". OTOH, there's this quote from transphobe Sheila Jeffreys - "Transgenderism on the part of men can be seen as a ruthless appropriation of women's experience and existence." Not this little black gender non-conforming duck.

The Politics of Your Piffling Little Planet (The Caretaker)
Ms Elizabeth Sandifer destroys Gareth Roberts.

Home from an overseas trip and weeks behind on the news.

The Human Rights Commission has had its budget slashed by half a million dollars, while the Administrative Appeals Tribunal has lost $3.7 million over the next five years.

The US has so far rejected all Iranian and Somali asylum seekers on Nauru, presumably as a result of the "Muslim ban". Last month another 50 refugees were accepted by the US as part of the deal.

The Immigration Minister, Peter Dutton, continues to rule out New Zealand as a resettlement option, despite NZ's willingness to accept some refugees from Manus and Nauru. However, Australia has also asked NZ to keep their offer open.

Another suicidal child has been brought to Australia from Nauru; this time the government backed down in the face of a court case, rather than having to be ordered by a judge.

You may recall the case of the woman who refused to leave Nauru for heart surgery unless her son went with her. Both are now in Taiwan, where she is recovering from surgery. A psychiatrist says her son is severely depressed and suicidal as a result of his imprisonment on Nauru and should not be returned there.

A hopeful sign: For The First Time In Forever, Voters Actually Support Limiting Offshore Detention

More soon, when I'm less jetlagged.

Due to illness, I missed the refugee march today. Here is Manus detainee Mohammad Imran's letter to be read on Palm Sunday.(Here's an interview with Imran, about the Rohingy a, from earlier this year.)

Another suicidal child, this time a ten-year-old boy, has been removed from Nauru despite our government's best legal efforts to keep him there.

Peter Dutton is pressing ahead with humanitarian visas for white South African farmers, commenting: "I'm completely blind as to somebody's skin colour, it makes no difference to me" and borrowing a leaf from President Trump's playbook by declaring media criticism "fake news".

Papua New Guinea has demanded to know when Australia will remove the refugees who remain on Manus Island. So far, 84 of about 600 men have escaped to the United States thanks to the refugee swap deal.

'It’s freedom': Rohingya refugee reaches Florida after horror of Australian detention (GA, 23 February 2018)

Swapped from Manus to Missouri (SBS, 20 February 2018)

'Negative status' asylum seekers on Manus Island left hanging in legal limbo, unable to leave or stay (ABC, 7 March 2018)
Paging Mr. Kafka.

Australia to train Myanmar military despite ethnic cleansing accusations (GA, 6 March 2018). "Defence department spend continues despite claims treatment of Rohingya bears 'hallmarks of a genocide'".

Scathing UN migration report mars Australia's first week on human rights council (GA, 2 March 2018)
Australia's refugee policies are part of a worldwide problem, as the UN’s special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer makes clear: "The primary cause for the massive abuse suffered by migrants in all regions of the world, including torture, rape, enslavement, trafficking and murder, is neither migration itself, nor organised crime, or the corruption of individual officials, but the growing tendency of states to base their official migration policies and practices on deterrence, criminalisation and discrimination, rather than protection, human rights and non-discrimination. States have initiated an escalating cycle of repression and deterrence designed to discourage new arrivals, and involving measures such as the criminalisation and detention of irregular migrants, the separation of family members, inadequate reception conditions and medical care, and the denial or excessive prolongation of status determination or habeas corpus proceedings, including expedited returns in the absence of such proceedings." (See also Why we all need to read ‘The Origins of Totalitarianism’ (Medium.com, 13 February 2017)).

Refugee visas a 'lower priority' not 'slowed down', ASIO boss says (ABC, 28 February 2018)
Paging Mr. Kafka again.

Small numbers of refugees continue to escape Manus Island and Nauru for the United States. Despite this excellent news, thousands are still being left behind, in increasing desperation. Also in good news: last year, Australia accepted a record number of humanitarian arrivals.

Last Friday, a group of refugees on Manus Island were attacked, allegedly by members of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force.

We keep refouling people - deporting them to danger. This Tamil asylum seeker, who may be tortured in Sri Lanka, is just the latest example. Meanwhile on Manus, asylum seekers whose applications have been rejected are being told that they cannot be deported because of the danger to them in their home countries, but that they cannot settle on either Papua New Guinea nor in Australia. Plus the US is not taking people from its list of Muslim-majority countries. Where are these refugees supposed to go? The moon?

I've wanted to comment for some time on the latest group of our fellow Australians the rest of us are supposed to fear and hate: Sudanese immigrants. As it turns out, the supposed rash of crimes by "African gangs" was - I can't do better than Overland's headline: Total and utter racist bullshit. "Right from the beginning, the whole ‘African gangs’ beat-up relied on errors, distortions and flat-out lies."

Here's Human Rights Watch's report on Australia for 2017.

Struggling with my mental health a bit at the moment, but not as much as the poor bastard on Manus who recently made three suicide attempts in twenty-four hours. In a mental health crisis, I could literally walk to a hospital. There are no such facilities on the island.

Refugees needing medical care told to leave children alone in offshore detention (GA, 20 January 2018). "Several department sources, and sources on Nauru, have confirmed to the Guardian that it is “unofficial policy” to use family separation to encourage refugees to return to Nauru after medical treatment overseas. The department has said in public statements that families are separated during medical transfers to keep the number of people being brought to Australia as low as possible."

Manus Island security contract dispute leaves asylum seekers feeling 'unsafe' (GA, 17 January 2018) | "An absolute shambles": contract dispute over Manus Island security (AM, 17 January 2018) | Manusians living near detention centres say sewage running on to their land (GA, 13 January 2018) | Dutton refuses Senate order to release details of refugee service contracts on Manus (GA 18 January 2018) Can't think why.

Concerns raised over medical care on Nauru (AM, 13 January 2018). "Concern has again been raised about the medical care of a Rohingya refugee man on Nauru, who received head injuries in a motorbike accident in November. Abu Bakar recovered sufficiently to be discharged from hospital a month ago. But four weeks on, the 28-year-old's friends say he has trouble walking without feeling dizzy, he can't fully use his right arm, and has been prescribed Panadol for pain relief."

Refugee in 'medical emergency’ stranded on Nauru for more than a year (GA, 11 January 2018). "Doctors believe man’s transfer stalled because he may never be well enough to return to Nauru and Australian has a policy of returning refugees once medical treatment complete." My generally well-managed mental health problems can't be compared to our deliberately causing mental illness in refugees and then refusing to treat it. But you know, the government would do this to me, too, if they thought there were votes in it.

Beyond the Wire: The refugees brought to Manus Island and the local people share their stories (GA, 16 January 2018)

Administrative Appeals Tribunal criticised after rejecting asylum seeker’s appeal over homosexuality (GA, 18 January 2018). Bizarre homophobia overturned by the Federal Court. The problem appears to be the refugee equivalent of a hanging judge.

'Every day I am crushed': the stateless man held without trial by Australia for eight years (GA, 15 January 2018)

'I need my family': how a refugee held on Nauru is struggling to make a new life in Cambodia (GA, 14 January 2018)

Good news first: First Dog on the Moon on the rescue of cartoonist "Eaten Fish", who is now safe in Norway.

Manus refugee attacked for second time amid tension over Australian centres (20 December 2017, 10 am). This is the refugee who has never received the necessary treatment for the machete injury to his arm; he was attacked in Lorengau's market.

Manus Island protesters block access to refugee accommodation, supplies (ABC, 19 December 2017). They preventing food, medicine, and medical help from reaching the refugees at the East Lorengau detention centre, and are prevented refugees from leaving. Behrouz Boochani Tweeted on 20 December that the blockade had ended.

'I will kill you': video contradicts Peter Dutton's claim refugees on Manus were lying about being threatened by locals (GA, 11 December 2017). #TellUsTheTruth

A Moonlight Tour of the Damned (Mark Isaacs, 11 December 2017). The writer's visit to Manus. “Chauka [solitary confinement at Manus] was Australia’s Guantanamo prison. I was put in there three times. I slept in a shipping container. There was no air-conditioning, no breezeway, no door, no toilet door, no shower curtain, so the guards could watch you at all times. The bed was made out of wood. One time, they handcuffed me for seventy-two hours.” I also want to highlight this: "There are attempts to beautify the narrow corridors of shipping container bedrooms: love hearts painted on doors, colourful landscape murals, and little gardens." It gives the lie to the claims that the centre was in disrepair because of the detainees.

The next time someone tries to shift the spotlight away from the mistreatment of refugees by talking about homelessness in Australia, point them to Manus detainee Walid Zazai's Christmas message from manus to homeless people of Australia.

A Tamil man has been forcibly returned to Sri Lanka, where he is at risk of torture and rape, after missing the crash deadline to apply for protection in Australia. 29 Sri Lankan asylum seekers were flown back after their boat sank near the Cocos Islands.

Australia is wilfully damaging the health of children on Nauru to make a point – and it is appalling (SMH, 12 December 2017). "When we visited Nauru as paediatric specialists three years ago, we were asked to see 30 of the 100 children being detained on the island. Among them was a six-year-old girl who had tried to kill herself and a two-year-old boy with such severe behaviour problems a doctor had prescribed anti-psychotic medicines. Their parents were in despair. They had fled persecution, trying to save their children from harm, but had ended up imprisoned on a remote island, without hope. We left with the view that these were the most traumatised children we had ever consulted on, far worse than children we had seen in Australia, Africa, Asia or Europe. Three years later, 43 of those children remain on the island."

Calls to adopt child abuse inquiry's recommendations on immigration detention (GA, 18 December 2017)

'This republic breaks all borders': a dialogue with Behrouz Boochani on Manus (SMH, 23 December 2017). Profound and inspiring philosophical, political, spritual. His manifesto is this Letter from Manus Island. Here's a review of Boochani's movie Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time, shot by mobile phone.

UNHCR Fact Sheet on Situation of Refugees and Asylum-Seekers on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (UNHCR, 15 December 2017)

Does Australia run the most generous refugee program per capita in the world? (RMIT / ABC Fact Check, 21 December 2017). SPOILERS: No. Or, as Fact Check puts it, Misleading. #TellUsTheTruth

As others see us: UNHCR says Australia abandoned refugees, must clear up the mess it made (Eye Witness News, Jonhannesburg, South Africa)

So I could use some good news. Here's some.

First 30 Central American refugees arrive in Australia after fleeing gang violence (SMH, 16 November 2017). Welcome!

Second cohort of Nauru and Manus refugees to be resettled in US (GA, 15 December 2017). Around 200 refugees, mostly Rohingya, Pakistani, and Afghanistani, have been accepted. Iranians, who form the largest fraction of refugees detained offshore, are affected by the US's Muslim ban.

PNG Supreme Court rules major victory to Manus asylum seekers (Refugee Action Coalition, 15 December 2017). The court found that the detainees' human rights have been breached. "The finding opens the way to major compensation and also for consequential orders against both the PNG and Australian governments. Asylum seekers who missed out on compensation from the Slater and Gordon case will be eligible for payment for the breaches of their human rights."

Australia ratifies UN protocol, agreeing to mainland detention centre inspections (GA, 15 December 2017). Prisons, juvenile detention centres, and psychiatric facilities will also be open to inspection - the last one is of personal interest to me.

ETA: Eaten Fish, Manus Island's refugee cartoonist, given sanctuary in northern Europe (GA, 19 December 2017)

From Behrouz Boochani's Twitter: men at the new camps facing long waits for water and food.

'I cannot leave my neighbour hungry': support for refugees from priest and major on Manus (GA, 23 November 2017)

"How is it possible that this is what’s required to get the truth out?"

Behrouz Boochani: I write from Manus Island as a duty to history (GA, 6 December 2017) | A message from Behrouz Boochani – Kurdish refugee and independent journalist (GetUp!, 26 November 2017)

Writer Mark Isaacs is posting many details of life on Manus on his Facebook, such as the role of Australian aid. From his blog: What It's Like Getting to Manus Island (29 November 2017).

I thought that MSF had been unable to provide any medical treatment on Manus since they were barred from the camps, but in fact they were able to treat a number of refugees at the hospital. On Twitter, Behrouz Boochani called for the AMA to go to Manus without waiting for the Australian government's permission; presumably they could also provide much-needed help (for locals, as well as refugees) in this way. Contact the AMA and ask them to talk to Papua New Guinea directly about visiting the island.

Matthew Phillips: Nothing prepared me for Australia's refugee camp (NZ Herald, 22 November 2017). "It was so oppressively hot we could hardly film indoors because the humidity fogged the camera lens. Men drag their mattresses outside to escape the sauna-like conditions in cramped sleeping quarters that are shared by up to 40 men. We saw evidence of months, if not years, of neglect of the facilities."

International complaint lodged over Australia's failure to investigate abuses by Manus contractor (Human Rights Law Centre, 27 November 2017). "The Human Rights Law Centre and OECD Watch have today requested the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to investigate the Australian Government’s handling of a complaint against its former security contractor G4S in relation to alleged abuse of refugees on Manus Island."

The critical issue, I think, is now getting medical attention the refugees on Manus, who desperately need it even more than before. However, MSF was unable to access the camp to deliver their services, despite permission from Papua New Guinea; and the AMA was not granted permission by Australian authorities, which given MSF's experience I think they were wise to seek. The problem is that doctors will blow the whistle on the men's suffering. Better that they continue to suffer, even die, as the government knows by now that a refugee death constitutes little more than a transient embarrassment.

Putting aside all humanitarian, legal, and moral questions, as someone who relies every day on medical and psychological care to stay alive, I take this denial of health care personally. If they'll do it to refugees, they will do it to Australians like me - if they think they can get away with it. And right now, they're getting away with it.

There was our silence and their violence as Manus camp was evacuated (GA, 1 December 2017). Behrouz Boochani describes the evacuation of the original detention centre. On the same day he tweeted that two of the new detention centres lacked water, food, and electricity.

Manus Island case management staff forced to leave for their own safety after landowner protest (ABC, 28 November 2017). "Manus Province police commander, David Yapu, said the protest was by landowners linked to the company Peren Investments... 'The issue behind the road block was about the awarding of the contract for the case management.'"

Ethel, a Manusian woman, smuggled food and water into the now defunct camp. Amidst the tension and violence the compassion of locals for refugees and vice versa is remarkable and encouraging.

Writer Mark Isaacs Facebooked a photo of the refugee whose arm was broken by a machete blow and who has never received the needed treatment.

(Perhaps it's not surprising that guards working for Wilson Security on Manus have also had difficulty accessing medical treatment.)

First, great news: At least 70 refugees held on Nauru reportedly accepted for resettlement in US (GA, 29 November 2017). As many as 90 could be accepted in this round.

Back to Manus. MSF still don't have access to the refugees there. There's no sign of the AMA's offer of free medical help being accepted.

Mental health 'crisis' risk for Manus men (The Australian (!), 28 November 2017).

The East Lorengau camp has been blockaded by the owner of the land it stands on. All services, including medical appointments with IHMS, have been cancelled. That camp, designed to accomodate 280 people, contains 400.

Footage from Manus: Religious leaders visit the camp (GetUp!, 29 November 2017).

What It's Like Getting to Manus Island (Mark J. Isaac's blog, 29 November 2017). Insight into life for locals on the island.

Australia's final solution (Renegade Inc). Argues that both Australia and refugees could benefit from following Amsterdam's example, making refugees and their skills part of the economy. Also contains this profoundly disturbing statement: "FYI, they haven’t stopped the boats. I have been told by members of the defence force who work on refugee 'intercept vessels' of mothers whose children had died in their arms, being sent back out to sea to drift aimlessly towards… anywhere but here." I am terrified of what we'll learn when the facts of the turn-arounds become public.

The push is on to get medical help to the men on Manus. MSF still don't have access to the camps.

Manus Island: Top Australian doctors offer free medical treatment asylum seekers (ABC, 27 November 2017). Manus Island: health experts push for right to assess refugees and asylum seekers (GA, 27 november 2017). I don't like their chances of gaining permission: "We want to do an independent assessment so the Australian people can get a clear picture of what's going on." That's the last thing the government wants.

A refugee's pet dog was cruelly and needlessly killed en route to the new detention centre. This unrelated news item helped restore my faith in humanity a bit.

I fear that the news cycle may be moving on, but the crisis isn't over. Many of the men are now injured, some badly, as a result of their violent removal to the new detention centres, along with existing illnesses and injuries which continue to go untreated. Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) are there but have been denied access to the men.

Manus Island refugees left 'homeless' with accommodation unfinished (9 News, 26 November 2017)

New centre at Manus still a construction site, says Tim Costello (GA, 25 November 2017)

Sign the Asylum Seeker Resources Centre's open letter of support to refugees and asylum seekers.

Okay.

Demonstrations tomorrow around the nation.

Manus detainees evicted (The Project, 23 November 2017).

Manus detention centre cleared of all refugees and asylum seekers (GA, 24 November 2017). "An officer yells at a refugee, 'Turn the fucking camera off,' before a rock is thrown at him." Some had their medications destroyed. At one of the new and still incomplete detention centres, about 60 men had nowhere to sleep.

Manus Island police use long metal poles to beat refugees and asylum seekers (GA, 24 November 2017)

Is there an award for magnificently dry headlines? Manus police pulled my hair and beat me. 'You've damaged our reputation,' they said (GA, 24 November 2017). Behrouz Boochani's account of the violent assault on the camp and his arrest.

'I'm not sure what they're going to do with me': Uncertainty awaits after month-long Manus Island standoff ends (SMH, 24 November 2017). "I'm not sure what they're going to do with me, how much time they will take, how long I will be detained again and how long I will be in prison camp,"

'We've tried to get information from the department': AMA's Anne Trimmer on health of Manus refugees (SMH, 25 November 2017)

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