The traumatic life of Australia's refugees and asylum seekers detained for years in the Park Hotel
Channel: The Conversation
Date: 2022-04-04

This video contains descriptions of detainment and trauma and may be distressing to some viewers.

The Park Hotel in Melbourne made headlines in January this year when tennis star Novak Djokovic was temporarily detained there after having his visa revoked by the Australian government. The incident drew attention to the plight of more than 30 refugees held at the Park Hotel, not far from The Conversation office, which has been used as a makeshift immigration detention facility since 2019. Many of the people held there had been transferred from the notorious offshore processing sites on Nauru, an island nation in the Pacific, and on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.

Read more and listen to the full podcast: https://theconversation.com/the-trauma-of-life-in-limbo-for-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-in-immigration-detention-podcast-178942

The voice recording of Ismael Hussein is used with his permission, courtesy of UNSW's Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law