Materials relating to Juliet Flesch's activism in the area of refugee, asylum seeker and detention centre detainees in Australia.
Includes correspondence, media reports and photographs, among other documents. Also includes two photographs relating to Flesch's academic interest in Australian romance writers.

Correspondence, media reports and other documents relating to Juliet Flesch's activism for refugee and asylum seeker rights in Australia.

Correspondence relating to Juliet Flesch's lobbying for improvements regarding human rights for refugees in Australia. Includes information on deportations and removals, conditions of detention centres, treatment of detainees and visitors, and specific asylum seeker cases.

Folder 1
Correspondence relating to complaints submitted to and made against detention centres, particularly the Maribyrnong detention centre, as well as the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA), Global Solutions Limited (GSL), Australasian Correctional Management (ACM) and some media outlets. The complaints pertain to alleged breaches of privacy and mistreatment of detainees and visitors. The correspondence consists of typed letters, email printouts and faxes sent between Juliet Flesch, Peter Cahill, Lyn Allison, Barry Jones, the Maribyrnong detention centre, DIMIA, GSL, ACM, The Age newspaper, the Nine Network, Philip Ruddock, Petro Georgiou, Andrew Metcalfe, Amanda Vanstone, Malcolm Turnbull and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, among others. Includes a photocopy of a petition by Maribyrnong detainees requesting improvement to living conditions as well as an anonymous letter sent to Juliet Flesch objecting to her opinions on refugees. Detainees Amin Mastapour, Mashallah Soleimani, Mohsen Soltanyzand and Shahin Agdar and the case of the death of Viliami Tanginoa are also mentioned in some letters. Dated: 2002-2009.

Folder 2
Correspondence relating to deportations and removals, and transfers of detainees between detention centres. Consists of email printouts and typed letters between Juliet Flesch, Julian Burnside, Petro Georgiou, The Age newspaper, Tanya Plibersek, Qantas, Stephen Smith, Carmen Lawrence, Lyn Allison and Amanda Vanstone, among others. Cases mentioned include Meng Kok Te, Rom Bahadur Pun, Ghanshyam Sharma, Rahmatollah Batorie, Mohsen Soltanyzand and Ali Hassanpour. Dated: 2003-2004.

Newspaper and magazine cuttings and online news article printouts relating to government policy on refugees and asylum seekers, the management and conditions of detention centres, and the treatment of detainees and their visitors. Also includes cuttings and online printouts of published letters to editors from Juliet Flesch. The Maribyrnong, Baxter and Villawood detention centres are mentioned in some materials.

Printout of an information page for a petition for Peter Qasim to be released from immigration detention, possibly authored by Juliet Flesch; a typed transcript of an interview of Juliet Flesch for a Spare Lawyers for Refugees oral history project called Detention Remembered; and two versions of a typed speech by Juliet Flesch and printout of accompanying PowerPoint presentation.

Materials relating to the Baxter, Maribyrnong, Nauru and Port Hedland detention centres. Includes information on the conditions of the detention centres and the treatment and experiences of detainees.

Correspondence and online news article printouts relating to the Baxter detention centre, South Australia. The correspondence consists of one handwritten letter sent to Juliet Flesch from a detainee named Moji (surname unknown) as well as email printouts and typed letters between Juliet Flesch, Petro Georgiou, Gary Hardgrave, The Australian and The Age newspapers, Carmen Lawrence, Kate Reynolds, and the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA), among others. The Curtin detention centre is also mentioned in one letter.

Correspondence relating to the Maribyrnong detention centre (MIDC), Victoria. Includes information on the treatment and experiences of one particular detainee named Amin Mastapour. The correspondence consists of one handwritten letter to Juliet Flesch from detainee Cameron Adel Bahre, as well as email printouts and typed letters between Juliet Flesch, Julian Burnside, Kate Durham, Brigid Arthur, Ann Morrow, Pamela Curr, Amanda Vanstone, Petro Georgiou, Lyn Allison, Catherine King, Fred Chaney, Barry Jones, The Age newspaper and Andrew Metcalfe, among others. The Villawood and Baxter detention centres are also mentioned in some correspondence.

Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, one magazine cutting and online news article printouts relating to the Nauru detention centre. The correspondence consists of email printouts and handwritten letters sent to Juliet Flesch from detainees Abdul Ghani Haidari, Ali Rezai and Assadullah Qazikhil, as well as email printouts and typed letters between Juliet Flesch, the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA), Pamela Curr, Brigid Arthur, Susan Metcalfe and Kate Durham, among others. One of the letters contains some words in Farsi without an English translation. The 2003-2004 Nauru hunger strikes and 2001 Tampa affair are mentioned in some of the materials.

Correspondence and one magazine cutting relating to the Port Hedland detention centre, Western Australia. The correspondence consists of handwritten letters and one card sent to Juliet Flesch from detainees Ehsan (surname unknown), Elmir (or Elmira) and Sahar Ajder, and Ali Rami, as well as email printouts and typed letters between Juliet Flesch, Frank Brennan, Carmen Lawrence, The Age newspaper, Pamela Curr, Ann Morrow, and Lyn Coleman, among others. One of the handwritten letters is in Farsi without an English translation. Includes a letter and photocopied petition signed by detainees requesting to be processed and settled in a country other than Australia. The Woomera, Maribyrnong and Villawood detention centres and detainees Ardeshir Gholipour and Sasan Mashayekhi are also mentioned in some correspondence.