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Julian Burnside and Kate Durham Papers English
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Collective Statements 1

Jointly authored letters and statements by asylum seekers relating to their claims for refugee status, their treatment by Australian authorities and the events and circumstances surrounding their interception by Australian naval and customs vessels and subsequent detention on Nauru, including some statements in Dari.

BBC Correspondent 'Australia's Pacific Solution'

Blurb: "In September 2001, the Australian government hatched an extreme response to 400 asylum seekers rescued from the Indian Ocean - they called it their "Pacific solution", but instead of a new life, Australia effectively sold them to the near-bankrupt island of Nauru, thousands of miles away into the middle of the Pacific."
First released Great Britain : BBC, 2002.
Censored in Australia.

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