Hi Ranjini,

I hope that you and your children are being as good as you can be. I remember reading about this situation with ASIO before you were taken into custody, and even when it comes to the way refugees are treated when they reach our shores, indefinitely locked up, even prisoners know how long their sentences are, they know how long they are going to be locked away, but people who are running for their lives and take such risks to try and find a place that is safe do not.

This makes me deeply ashamed, that a country as big, rich, and safe as ours feel they need to treat refugees this way. I truly hope that this situation will change very soon, it has to. I know that there are thousands of people in Australia who feel the same way, I’m living in Cambodia at the moment where human rights abuses happen every day, but this is not what you would expect of a country such as Australia. Im sorry for what you have been through and are still going through and hope that you will soon be released along with those others who are still in detention. When this happens there will be parties parties parties! sorry.

Anita Davis