Where is the child’s mother? Father? A review of “Tell Me How it Ends”
Luiselli’s book “Tell Me How it Ends” reveals and humanises the plight of young refugees.
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“The Displaced”: invisibility and hypervisibility in a hostile climate
The stories in “The Displaced” give a voice to those who are seen, or feel to be, out of place, and testify to the inequalities still faced by many.
Systems of Oppression: a review of No Friend But the Mountains
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison Behrouz Boochani, Omid Tofighian Picador Australia, 2018 “Is courage the opposite of fear?” asks Behrouz Boochani in his monumental, impossible new work, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison (Picador, 2018). “Or is courage a virtue that emerges out of the essence of […]
The Asylum Poems
With unflinching focus, these poems by Lisa Jacobson depict the plight of those seeking asylum in Australia.
What Water Brings
West Australian award-winning writer and educator Reneé Pettitt-Schipp writes about her experience teaching English and Art to asylum seeker and islander students on Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands from 2011 to 2014.
Vacation During Wartime
Poet Vivienne Mohan considers the impact of war on everyday lives.
Manus
In this poem writer John Bartlett considers the plight of the asylum seekers on Manus Island detention centre.
Another Hour Passes
Trauma counsellor and writer Dinesha Perera evokes the human toll of detention in her short story ‘Another Hour Passes’.
Drifting
This creative work argues that it’s time to change the violence of offshore detention.
The dangers of celebrating Refugee Week
We should be showing the nation’s leaders that we will not tolerate the xenophobic war on refugees and asylum seekers, not celebrating.