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Melbourne Detention Centre

August 20, 2010 by Susanna Leave a Comment
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I hadn’t realised there was a detention centre, Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation, just up the road in Broadmeadows. You’ll find it hidden away behind the army barracks on Camp Road with no sign to indicate it’s there at all. The detention centre holds an estimated 42 unaccompanied Afghan teenagers – all from the Hazara ethnic [...]

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Vale, Amal Basry

March 31, 2008 by Susanna Leave a Comment

Vale Amal Basry, a woman of great courage and humanity, who died in Melbourne on March 18, 2006 Saturday. After fleeing Iraq with her son, Amal boarded the SIEVX on her journey to Australia. On October 19, 2001, when the boat went down, Amal survived 15 hours in the cold dark ocean with her son. [...]

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