Further learning

For more information about Change the Record and their campaign to end systemic violence against First Nations people, please visit: www.changetherecord.org.au 

For more information about immigration and detention in Australia: https://humanrights.gov.au/know-your-rights/rights-of-individuals/asylum-seekers-and-refugees/immigration-detention-and-human-rights

Reading List

The below resources are available online (where linked) or from your favourite bookshop or library.

• Speak the wind, Hoda Afshar
• Born in This Skin by Vernon Ah Kee: https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/screen-guide/born-in-this-skin-28136/
• No friend but the mountains: writing from Manus prison, Behrouz Boochani
• Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani, Behrouz Boochani
• Unknown: a Refugee’s Story, Akuch Kuol Anyieth.
• Escape from Manus: the Untold True Story, Javiet Ealom:
• Growing up Aboriginal in Australia ed. Anita Heiss.
• Editions from Dreaming Inside: Voices from Junee Correctional (?):
• Detention, Jack Ralphman.
• ProppaNOW 2004 - 2008 , Vernon Ah Kee, Tony Albert, Bianca Beetson ... [and others].
• Black Lives, White Law: Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia, Russell Marks.
• Defending the Defenseless, Dr Eddie Cubillo.
• Handing Over the Keys: Indigenous Peoples and Carceral Injustice, Linda Mussell.
• Seeking Asylum: Our Stories, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.
• Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System, Safdar Ahmed.
• The Undesirables: Inside Nauru, Mark Isaacs
• On Fragile Waves, E. Lily Yu

Places and organizations to support:

• Change the Record: https://www.changetherecord.org.au/
• Youth Empowered Towards Independence (YETI): https://yeti.net.au/
• Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service: https://www.vals.org.au/
• Asylum Seeker Resource Centre: https://asrc.org.au/
• Foundation House: https://foundationhouse.org.au/
• The Torch: https://thetorch.org.au/
• Justice Reform Initiative: https://www.justicereforminitiative.org.au/
• Human Rights Law Centre, Whistleblower Project: https://www.hrlc.org.au/whistleblower-project/
• Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness

https://law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/statelessness

On the artists:

Hoda Afshar: Home | hodaafshar 

Behrouz Boochani: Behrouz Boochani 

Milani Gallery: - Milani Gallery 

proppaNOW website: (6) Instagram