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.

Documents relating to Julian Burnside:
Printed pages – email contact list;
Printed pages – address list;
Printed pages from Burnside website 11 Feb 2002 to 2 Jun 2002, 17 leaves;
Printed pages from Burnside website Financial Analysis of Detention Centre Costs, 2 – 4 Jun 2002, 12 leaves;
Photocopied pages from Temporary Protection Visa Education Kit;
Photocopied pages from Refugee Council of Australia, Sept 2003;
Photocopied UNHCR document, Return Information Update, 15 Dec 2003;
Copy of Julian Burnside speech re Asylum Seekers, [undated];
Printed page from webpage 'Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock – Contact Details';
Copy of facsimile [correspondents unknown], of Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs form, Decision and Notification – Bridging Visa E – Subclass 050, 1 leaf;
Email to Tony Kevin from Keysar Trad regarding transcripts of interviews with boat, 11 Feb 2002, 9 leaves;
Copy of Tony Kevin’s opening statement to the Senate Select Committee Inquiry into a certain Maritime Incident, 1 May 2002;
Copy of handwritten notes on experiences of asylum seekers;
Copy of facsimile Media Release form from Republic of Nauru, Nauru Calls for Responsibility from Australian Government as Hunger Strike Worsens, 6 Jan 2004;
Photocopied map of Republic of Nauru;
Photocopied pages of letters from asylum seekers [written in script, possibly Farsi];
Newspaper cutting Afghanistan’s a mess. Iraq is... [undated];
Copies of newspaper cutting ‘No Hope Atoll’, Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 24 to 25, 2002 [with handwritten annotations] ;
Two pages of handwritten notes [undated].

Photograph of Boman Ali and letters and cards to Kate Durham from Ali.

Letter to unidentified recipient from Aminah Hossaini.

Two photographs of Amin Jan Amin and letters to Kate Durham, Jenny Riley and Jill Singer from Amin.

Correspondence between Ali Shahidi and Kate Durham and Jenny Riley, including some letters in Dari.

Letters to Kate Durham, Jenny Riley and Julian Burnside from Ali Rezai.

Letters to Jane Grant and family, Ellen Kehoe, Gillian Blair, Julian Burnside and Rachele Carnevale from Ali Madad Rezai.

Letters to Fahim Fayyaze, Kate Durham and Julian Burnside from Ahmad Salmanzadeh, including some letters in Dari.

The box also contains envelopes, unaccompanied by letters, addressed to Jenny Riley and others from the following correspondents:
Mohammad Zahir Soltani
Ghulam Hazrat Payadar
Rahama and Rostam Ali
Ewaz Ali
Ali Mohammadi (detainee number 225)
Ali Yawer Hussaini
Abdullah Maqsoodi
Hussain Dad Yawari
Detainee number 186, name not disclosed
Abdullah Maqsoodi
Hussaindad
Sharaza (detainee number 03-306)
Mohammad Ghulam Hazrat
Detainee number 74y, name not disclosed
Gazhihkil Assadullah
Ghulam Nabi Wahidi
Council on the Ageing (Victoria)
Reza (detainee number 1-18)
Mohammad Raza Amir
Jamshed Khan Mohmaud
Ewaz Ali
Nasir Haydari
Khalili
[first name incomplete] Jamshidie
Mohammad Yasin Hamzaie
Ali Y Mullaie
Nick Mohammad Hussaini
Mohammad Jafar Ahmadi
Abbas Ali Taj
Amir Awaz Ahmadi
Amiri Mohammad Raza
Mohammad Zaher Dulat Shahi
Mohammad [last name indecipherable] (detainee number 01-019)
Shahreza
Niamatullah Khalili
Keith Davis
Susan Mizrahi
Ewaz Ali
Amir Ewaz
Mohammad Hashim Hussaini
Amir Ewaz Ahmadi
Esmatullah and Abdul Ahad
Abrahim Mirzaee
Ali Asghan
Ali Zafar Ibrahim Nezad
Boomana
Mohammad Reza
Mirza Hussain Ayubi
Arif Nazari Himmat
Hussain Dad Yawali
Uzra Rezaee
Ashraf Ali
Mohammad Arif Haleemy
Mohammad Hussain Mirzai
Ghulam Haider
Mohammad Raja
Habiballah
Safar Ali Rezai
Liaqat Ali Mahmudi
Esmatullah Abdul Ahad from Jenny Riley, 15 Jan 2003, marked ‘return to sender, no longer in
Nauru’
Ghulam Hazrat Payadar
Ali Rahimi
Nieunatullah
Hussain Dad Faizi
Abdul Wahid Fatihy
Faired
Mirza Mohammadi
Boomana Haidari
[first name incomplete] Qasimi
Mohammad Zaher Dulat Shahi
L. Hawkins
Jamshed Khan Mohmaud
Abdul Ghani Haidari
Nadir Ali
Abrahime Mirzaee