Freeing Ali
Subtitle: The Human Face of the Pacific Solution (Briefings)
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: February 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9780868409788
Subjects: Biography: general; Refugees; Emigration & Immigration; Biography & Autobiography; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Biography/Autobiography; Afghanistan; Nauru; Australia & New Zealand - Australia; Lawyers & Judges; Asylum, Right of; Australia; Government policy; Relations
Description: "Michael Gordon was the first journalist to gain unrestricted access to the refugee detention centre on the tiny island of Nauru... In April 2005 he interviewed more than half of the asylum seekers who remained on the island, witnessing at first hand the conditions in which they were held. His reports from Nauru, published in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, drew an enormous response from readers." "At the centre of those articles was Ali Mullaie, a young Afghan asylum seeker teaching computer skills to Nauruan school children. Freeing Ali follows his story from Afghanistan to Nauru, and ultimately to Melbourne - and recounts the experiences of survivors of the SIEV X tragedy and the "children overboard" saga. Michael Gordon examines how ordinary Australians forced the Howard government to drop the harsher elements of its border protection policy. And, as the pressure grows back in Australia for a change in policy, he assesses the costs, in human and financial terms, of the Pacific Solution." -- BOOK JACKET.