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The article below is taken from The Age: “Three years on, Papuans win the right to a life”

Welcome: Successful asylum seekers from back right, Hendrikus Sarau, Herman Wainggai, Julius Kogoya, Izack Marani and Richard Rumbiak and, front row, Marike Tebay, Papuana Motte with her baby, William Omabak, and Stefanus Akanmor. Photo: Justin McManus

Andra Jackson
June 2, […]

Once again, the word “illegal” has illegally been brought back into the media when discussing the plight of people fleeing often unimaginable horrors to escape to Australia. Asylum seekers are not illegal, they are protected by international law. If Australia was to pass a law that made them illegal we ourselves would be in breach […]