'It was life or death': the plane-hijacking refugees Australia embraced
Last modified on Sat 16 Jan 2021 18.40 EST Let’s conduct a quick thought experiment: what would happen if one day, in the middle of a civil war on a small island unknown to most, a group of refugees forced themselves on to an air force plane and demanded to be taken to Australia? To which far-flung detention centre would they be sent? How long would their jail sentences be? Or would they simply be sent back home – possibly to die? Surely the group would not have been asked a simple question after only a few days in a cell: “Which Australian state would you like to call your new home?”
Source: theguardian.com