Reports, articles and newspaper cuttings relating to the Tampa and SIEV X events, the Australian Government’s policies on asylum seekers arriving by boat, the treatment of asylum seekers intercepted by the Australian Defence Forces and Customs, and the conditions and treatment of asylum seekers detained in Nauru and elsewhere, 2002-2003. Includes reports and accounts of Kate Durham’s visit to the Nauru detention centre in 2002.

Newspaper cuttings relating to asylum seekers held in detention by the Australian Government, the use of Nauru as a site for detention, the politics behind the Government’s policies on asylum seekers, and the support provided to asylum seekers by Kate Durham and others in Australia.

Previously housed in a ring binder folder labelled 'Criminal Law Conference 2-5 May 2002', this file is comprised of:
Letters to Kate Durham and Julian Burnside from refugees on Nauru, 27 Apr to 26 Aug 2002, 7 letters [some written in Farsi script];
Letters to refugees on Nauru from Kate Durham, 2 letters [undated];
Letter to Kate Durham from Howard Glenn, Australians for Just Refugee Programs, 9 Apr 2002;
List of contacts and notes regarding refugees on Nauru;
Original and photocopied newspaper cuttings regarding refugees on Nauru.

Photocopied newspaper cutting and press release attached.

This file is from a blue folder, annotated with contact details and list of contact attached, and contains:
Pamphlets from Romero Community Centre and Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support, Queensland;
Iranian Community Organisation form;
Australian Fabian Society pamphlet ;
Copies of letter to Amnesty International from refugees at Topside Camp, Nauru, 1 May 2003;
Emails to Kate Durham from ‘Spare Roomers’ re providing welfare for refugees, 2 Jun to 21 Aug 2002, 38 leaves;
Emails to ‘Spare Roomers’ from Kate Durham, 20 Jun to 3 Sept 2002, 11 leaves;
Email to Julian Burnside from Rachel Young [attached to letter to Persian Publications from Kate Durham], 15 Aug 2002, 2 leaves;
Email to Julian Burnside from James Rose and Clare Barry, 11 Aug 2002, 1 leaf;
Handwritten draft of letter to David Knight from Kate Durham [undated];
Printed indexes: Documents from Sue Henderson ; KBD Documents, 2 leaves;
Miscellaneous notes.

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.

Screened at Kaleide Theatre, RMIT, Swanston Street, Melbourne.

Copy of The Melbourne Times, Issue 6, 27 February 2002, featuring the article 'Here Comes the Neighbourhood', about Melburnians providing accommodation and other support to refugees

Sewing projects, patterns and dolls created by asylum seekers while held in detention on Naru and put on display in the exhibition And everyone was an optimist at the gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in 2005. Four satin covered cakes of soap.
53 pillows created for exhibition Sewing all the way to here at Shepparton Art Gallery in 2006.

Comprises: 1 sculpture, 11 framed works of relief sculpture, 3 paintings and 273 panels of the artwork SIEV X. Captions and ephemera relating to exhibitions in Box 4.
7 steel framed display panels, 180cm x 90cm