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Correspondence, handwritten and typed. Includes an undated handwritten statement signed by Lenard Law, possibly writing as an amanuensis. The statement is written in the first-person and contains biographical details of an Aboriginal person confined against his/her wishes at the Cherbourg settlement.
Correspondents include John Joseph Quinn, Wilfred Wragge, Maidie Ross (Restricted), Arthur Cobba Simson, Doris Crawford, W. Porteus Semple (Superintendent Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement), Leslie Wilson (Governor of Queensland), and Tom Blackman.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Tennant-Kelly, Caroline, 1899-1989

Ebrahim Sammaki

Correspondence and cuttings relating to Ebrahim Sammaki (sometimes spelt Ebrihim Sammaki), an Iranian detainee who was held at the Baxter detention centre in South Australia. The correspondence consists of one handwritten letter sent to Juliet Flesch from Sammaki, as well as email printouts and typed letters between Juliet Flesch, The Age newspaper, the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) and Philip Ruddock, among others. Also includes a typed thank you note sent from Sammaki to friends and relatives following the death of his wife, Endong Sammaki, in the 2002 Bali Bombings.

Flesch, Juliet

Ali Ramin Bakhtiarvandi

Correspondence and cuttings relating to Ali Ramin Bakhtiarvandi, an Iranian detainee who was held at the Port Hedland detention centre in Western Australia and Baxter detention centre in South Australia. The correspondence, mostly email printouts with some typed letters, is between Juliet Flesch, Carmen Lawrence, Julian Burnside, The Age newspaper, the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA), the United Nations Centre for Human Rights, and the Ombudsman of Western Australia, among others. Includes newspaper cuttings, mostly original with some online news article printouts, relating to Ali Bakhtiarvandi and his 2003 High Court case, in which he was represented by Julian Burnside. Also includes eleven cardboard cards used by Juliet Flesch to record handwritten lists of items tems sent to Bakhtiarvandi between about 2002 to 2004 while he was detained at the Port Hedland and Baxter detention centres.

Flesch, Juliet

Rom Bahadur Pun

Handwritten letters sent to Juliet Flesch from Rom Bahadur Pun, a Nepalese detainee who was held at the Port Hedland detention centre in Western Australia. Attached to one of the letters is a colour photograph, 13 x 9 cm, of Rom Pun's children.

Flesch, Juliet

Jarnil Khan Hashimi

Correspondence and cuttings relating to Jarnil Khan Hashimi, an Afghan detainee who was held at the detention centre on Nauru. The correspondence consists of handwritten letters, a card and email printout sent to Juliet Flesch from Jarnil Khan Hashimi, as well as typed correspondence between Juliet Flesch, the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA), the Brigidine Asylum Seekers' Project and The Age newspaper, among others. Includes some documents relating to a fundraising event held to raise money for Hashimi and his family.

Flesch, Juliet

Hossein Iran

Correspondence and cuttings relating to Hossein Iran, an Iranian asylum seeker who was found guilty of three counts of people smuggling by a Melbourne Magistrates Court. The correspondence, sent to Juliet Flesch, includes one typed letter from the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) and one handwritten letter from Hossein Iran. Bahram Peyrou and two brothers, Nasser and Nader Sayadi-Estahbanati, the asylum seekers linked to Hossein Iran's case, are also mentioned.

Flesch, Juliet

Liela Anvari

Handwritten letters sent to Juliet Flesch from Liela Anvari, an Iranian detainee who was held at the Port Hedland and Curtin detention centres in Western Australia.

Flesch, Juliet

Nauru

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.

Flesch, Juliet

Baxter

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.

Flesch, Juliet

Port Hedland

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.

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