“I didn’t think anything could be worse than the five long years on Nauru, but honestly, the life in Australia where we have no hope of a future is killing us, slowly,” a refugee mother tells John Minns.
This time last year, Sahar Ghasemi was a happy young woman. Like thousands of others around Australia she was starting university.
She had won a scholarship to pay her fees for an arts/law degree. Seven weeks into her first semester, she turned 18. Then she was disenrolled – her visa doesn’t allow her to study in Australia after that age.
It’s time Labor ended cruel refugee visa ‘limbo’, By Prof John Minns, City News Canberra