Correspondence between the Sarwari family – Sajjad, Sediga and Sakina - and Jenny Riley, H. Thompson, Ellen Kehoe, Karen Brown and Julian Burnside, accompanied by copies of letters to Sediga from the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs.
Letters to Jenny Riley from Mohammad Taqi, including one letter in Dari.
Letters between asylum seekers and Australian correspondents, including some letters in Dari. Letter writers include:
Hussain Fayzi
Basim Garawak
Michael Gawenda (The Age newspaper)
Grace Gordon
Basim Grawook
Gulbanow
Lal Mohammad Haassani
Mirhabib Habib
Mohammad Habibi
Mohammad Habiby
Abdul Hadee
B Hussaini
Nasir Haidari
Abdul Ghaon Haiden
Ghulam Haider
Mohammad Arif Haleemy
Mohammad Yasin Hamzaie
Jemil Khan Hashimi
Hassan ?
Ghulam Hazrat
Mohammad Anwar Hedayat
W. Al-Shahib- Hilli (Iraqi Human Rights Group)
Ali Yawar Hussain
Mosa Hussain
Jafar Hussaini
Khaliq Ibrahimi
Zarghona Jawadi
Newspaper cuttings and press release
Photocopied newspaper cutting and press release attached.
Photograph of Boman Ali and letters and cards to Kate Durham from Ali.
Letters to Judy Shirlow from Peyman Darvishzadeh and a handwritten poem, 'If One Was Equal to One'.
Letters to Janice Nelson from Shukria Hussaini and an email and a letter to Julian Burnside from Janice Nelson. Media and military reports relating to the drowning death of Hussaini's grandmother, Nurjan Hussaini, on 8 November 2001. A photograph showing children in detention on Nauru.
Mass declarations by asylum seekers and related correspondence, including some material in Dari. The declarations follow a standard format, with each signatory declaring she or he is being detained on Nauru against their will and instructing pro bono lawyers to take legal proceedings on their behalf.
Photocopies and prints of photographs, showing children, women and men in detention in Nauru, Kate Durham visiting the Nauru detention centre in August 2004, a family being reunited at an airport, and Philip Ruddock, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, 2003-2004, 30 photographs. Folder also contains a satirical comic strip about the plight of asylum seekers, four copies of a satirical sketch of Prime Minister John Howard and two postcards featuring artwork by Kate Durham.
Letters to Ellen Kehoe and Glenda McNaught from Abdul Rauf Jafari.