Freeing Ali: The Human Face of the Pacific Solution
Full details for this title
| Interest Age |
All ages |
| Reading Age |
All ages |
| Library of Congress |
Refugees - Government policy - Australia., Australia - Relations - Nauru., Asylum, Right of - Australia. |
| NBS Text |
Biography: Historical, Political & Military |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade |
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| Number of Pages |
128 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 213mm
Height: 137mm
Spine: 10mm |
| Weight |
150g |
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| Dewey Code |
325.21092 |
| Catalogue Code |
Not specified |
Description of this Book
In April this year, Michael Gordon was the first journalist to gain unrestricted access to the refugee detention center on Nauru. There he interviewed more than half of the 54 asylum seekers then on the island. His article, based on these interviews, for AcAAThe Good WeekendAcAA magazine drew an enormous response from readers. AcAAFreeing AliAcAA expands beyond that article to tell the story of Ali Mullaie, an Afghan asylum seeker, since granted refugee status in Australia, who spent three and half years detained on Nauru. Ali gained widespread attention for teaching computer skills to Nauruan school children. Michael Gordon backgrounds his profile of Ali and his fellow detainees with a discussion of the impact of the detention center and the 'Pacific Solution' on the people of Nauru and their country, a country that recently had a change of government and suffers from an economy in ongoing decline. AcAAFreeing AliAcAA also includes Michael Gordon's photographs of detainees and the Nauruan landscape.
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Author's Bio
Michael Gordon is national editor of The Age. His previous books include Reconciliation: A Journey (UNSW Press, 2001), which won a Queensland Premier's Literary Award, and A True Believer (1996). In 2003 he won an all-media Walkley Award for his writing on indigenous affairs.
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