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(smoke whooshes)

(boat motor runs and waves splash)

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- We we will decide who comes to this country

and the circumstances in which they come.

(crowd applauds)

We just can't continue sending a signal to the rest

of the world that this is a nation of easy destination.

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- This House today can send a very clear message to asylum

seekers who are contemplating risking a voyage at sea

and that message very clearly is don't risk it,

don't give your money to a people smuggler

because you will not be better off.

- I make absolutely no apology whatsoever

for taking a hard line on illegal immigration to Australia.

- What the Australian people

elected us to stop the boats.

This is a national emergency, we've got to treat as such.

- This is a border security operation.

Our resolve to implement what we have promised

the Australian people to stop the boats is absolute.

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(camera rattles)

- [Social Worker] Thank you.

- [Guard] You're welcome, enjoy your day.

- [Social Worker] You too.

- [Guard #2] How are you this morning?

- [Social Worker] How are you?

- [Guard # 2] Good, how are you?

- [Social Worker] Good thank you.

(rock crunches)

I knew it was a detention centre.

I didn't know there'd be so many high fences,

that people would be so restricted in their movement,

that they would live in tents,

that people have already been there for over 400, 500 days.

I didn't know there'd be so many security personnel.

It feels militarised.

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- A friend of mine called me and told me,

"hey they're hiring people to go to Nauru,

you should go you're interested in asylum seekers."

And I thought, yeah, yeah I guess I am,

so she gave me this number and she got the number off

of Facebook Ad, believe it or not, and I called

this number and said I'd like to go to Nauru,

and the woman said: "sure when can you leave?"

- I was a student at Macquarie uni in Sydney

and I joined the Salvation Army Society on Facebook,

and they posted an add about going to work

in Nauru and at the time they made it

sound like really nice out there.

They made it sound like it was just a two week

kind of holiday, you could bring your friends along.

Yeah I called the number that was listed on the website

and two to three days later I was

in Nauru with two of my best friends from school.

My friend that came with, he was a manager at McDonald's

and my other friend packed boxes in a factory.

- A wide range of people were hired and they were

18 year olds, university students, retirees,

and the only thing that we had in common was that none

of us had experience working with refugees before.

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I can't stress enough the remoteness

of the location of Nauru.

It's in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

It's an island of 10,000 people.

It takes 20 minutes to drive around the island.

It's extremely hot.

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You immediately notice how poor the island is.

Then the Australian government comes to the Nauru government

and says, we're gonna offer you several billion dollars

over the next however many years

to house a few thousand asylum seekers.

For a failing economy like Nauru, I can imagine

it would seem like a very good option.

(rock crunches)

On my first day we had moved up to the camp.

The Salvation Army gave us a very small briefing

and said go out and help them and be their friends.

- The lady that took us in there, she said:

"okay now, we want you to get in pairs.

I'll be back in a couple of hours,

go and mingle", and then she just left.

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- I went up to a group of men who were sitting

under the only tree in the whole centre.

I asked them how they were and they were like,

they said to me: "why are you here and why are we here?"

- How long will we be here for?

And we've been given as instructions is go out

and help the men, and it's at that point

that I realised what the hell am I doing here.

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- [Social Worker] A lot of people were really confused

when they first arrived in Nauru.

I remember one particular intake,

a lot of the men were saying to me: "where are we,

I thought this was part of Australia?"

So it was up to us to tell them that no,

you're not in Australia, you're in Nauru.

- One of my most vivid memories was a sign being

on the wall saying that staff would have

to be trained how to use a Hoffman's knife.

When I asked what a Hoffman's knife was it was the knife

used to cut people down when they're found hanging.

Quite quickly I started to realise that I had sent myself

to a place which I had never would have gone.

- I don't think anybody wakes up and says, I've decided

that I decided that I wanna run a detention centre.

I grew up on Sydney's North Shore,

fairly comfortable upbringing, upper middle-class

white guy in a place with very few migrants at all.

And frankly didn't care about immigration,

didn't care about asylum seekers,

it wasn't something that I confronted in my life

and didn't feel it was something I was passionate about.

It wasn't something that my friends talked about,

I just really didn't care, it just didn't feature.

(rock crunches)

I suppose for me, my story is about coming across

this policy issue completely naive to the problems.

Initially it was about looking after people in detention

and shifted to a policy of deterrence.

So you go from looking after people to saying if you

come here we're gonna make it worse for you

than if you stayed where you came from.

- The idea was to say we don't you

and your families coming to Australia by boat

and so we're gonna make this place as horrible as possible

to convince you to tell the people back

in your countries not to come by boat.

What that means for the people in offshore

detention centres is that they're stuck there

with no idea of what will happen to them.

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- The threat of asylum seekers has been blown up

to create a huge political storm around

the issue, which then needs an answer,

and the answer is to stop the boats coming.

And you'd be naive to think that the hard-line policies

of the Australian government have not done that.

They've attacked the people smuggler's business

model, as they call it, successfully.

They've stopped the boats successfully,

but there is a human cost to that

and we see it in Indonesia, we see it

on Manus Island, we see it on Nauru.

(unsettling music)

(motorbikes revving)

I've been in Indonesia for almost three years.

Probably the most common story I write is

on refugees and asylum seekers trying

to find a way through Indonesia to Australia.

Now the boats have stopped, the way is closed,

really it's about people who are stoppered

here and what their life is like.

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(muted conversations)

They're unable to work, if they have children,

the children cannot go to school.

Everything that they want costs

them money that they're unable to earn.

They're stuck in limbo here.

(keys pound)

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(bread slams)

(bread slams)

- Okay thank you and again come back here shopping.

(motorbikes rev)

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(boat motor runs)

- Today the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea

and I are announcing a major initiative

to combat the scourge of people smuggling.

From now on any asylum seeker who arrives in Australia

by boat will have no chance of being

settled in Australia as refugees.

If they are found to be genuine refugees

they will be resettled in Papau New Guinea.

Australia will continue its cooperative arrangements

on people smuggling with the Republic of Nauru

and looks forward to furthering

those arrangements in the future.

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- And there was daily, plane loads of detainees coming in.

Manus was to become a camp for single men.

G4S management approached me to go up there

in a training role to train expat staff

in the position of Safety and Security Officer.

I'd spent eight or nine years as a prison officer, the only

people that I had experience with was the criminal world.

It was not what I thought a detention camp wold be,

one of the worst for accommodation,

a World War II hut made of tin on a concrete floor,

122 double bunks in this shed.

Manus Island is tropical and those guys

were housed in it, a tin shed.

It was disgusting. The odour was disgusting.

I just couldn't believe what I was looking at.

It was amazing.

- Manus looked like a jail to me.

The men were padlocked in behind gates.

There was faeces, open faeces on the ground.

Men didn't have enough clothes. Men didn't have shoes.

They didn't have enough drinking water.

There was malaria. There was sickness, disease, infection.

- Some of the guys were very happy to see new staff arrive,

then it struck me they were happy to see new faces

because of the boredom that they were leaving.

Once we'd been there for a number of weeks

then they started to slip back into what

I now know as their own lifestyle,

they're just slant-shoulders, just broken men.

These guys had no future and that's

what their faces showed to me.

- The message is simple if you come to Australia

illegally by boat there is no way

you will ever make Australia home.

- The act of seeking asylum is not illegal because it's

a right, it's a right that arises under

the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

and it's also a right that arises under a range

of international human rights treaties

such as the Refugee's Convention.

- The Refugee Convention is one of the most humane

international understandings on the planet.

It's the world's apology for what was done

to the Jewish people in the 1930s

for the doors closed in the faces

of the Jewish people trying to feel the Holocaust.

It was an understanding between countries

that when people were seeking protection from persecution

that they could cross a border, they could seek protection

and Australia signed up to it.

Australia said look yes, we decide who comes

into this country and we decide by signing

this convention that we'll let refugees come here,

and we'll let 'em come as they come everywhere else

in the world, we'll let 'em come by sea.

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(rock crunches)

- [Social Worker] Hey there.

(fan whirs)

- It's quite obvious that the camps

are set up to send people home.

I know that it's not supposed to be a holiday,

but it took about six weeks, I think,

for them to start to degrade mentally.

(bag closes)

- The whole concept of indefinite detention

is this idea that there is no progress.

If you a criminal in Australia, you say, you've committed

a crime, your punishment is two years in jail.

For these men, they don't know what crime they've committed.

Under the Refugee Convention they've got every right

to come here and ask for protection,

at least have their stories heard.

When you've got this two year sentence

as a prisoner you can't count down the days;

for these men, they didn't have that.

Day two is the same as day five,

which is the same as day a hundred,

except by day a hundred you've spent 100 days

in this camp with no idea of if you're progressing

any closer to your future goal.

(bag rustles)

(fan whirs)

- I never really had seen daily self-harm, up to four a day.

There was no hope to give them.

I'd be lying if I told them I knew

and I could make their life better 'cause I couldn't.

I saw men cut their stomach open with glass.

One man take a fluorescent light tube

and beat himself across the head and stab himself,

men suffocating themselves, men stitching

their lips, one man stitched his eyelid.

- A lot of cutting, sometimes superficial,

sometimes deeper, swallowing Rid,

swallowing washing powder, swallowing razor blades,

people trying to hang themselves

with rope, fan cords, knitting wool.

They are incredibly traumatised from where they're

coming from, what they're seeking asylum from and they're

being really traumatised by their current situation.

Their families are separated and they see

no prospect of them ever being reunited.

They see no hope for the future.

- A young Sri Lankan man that I was working with,

he was Tamil, he was about 24, 25 years old,

so we're about the same age, he was living in an area

in Sri Lanka, there was a strong presence

of the Tamil Tigers, one day they came to the family's house

and they shot his father in front of him and he died.

He and his brother decided to flee the area.

So they left for Colombo, the capitol city.

They were caught there and he was kept

in prison for about one year he said

and he told me he was tortured throughout the entire time.

He was highly distressed when he was on Nauru.

He had a lot of symptoms of severe trauma.

He was complaining of burning all over his body

all of the time and he had a lot of cigarette burns

all over his back, and he said that

they had burnt his genitals as well.

The last time I saw him he was really upset.

He was crying, he said: "my life, why is this my life?

If tonight, I'm in bed and I just slip a plastic bag over

my head and died no one would know, no one would care."

I had nothing to say. I didn't know what to say.

- [Interviewer] Was that kind of situation common?

- [Social Worker] Yeah, yeah.

(rock crunches)

The deterioration amongst all the asylum

seekers no matter what their age is,

is probably what's hardest to see.

People have really severe mental healt issues now

which they didn't have before.

People are talking to themselves.

People have psychotic episodes.

Most outs will be on a range of medication, 'cause they'll

take sleeping tablets and still won't be able to sleep,

and they're walking around like zombies essentially.

They will be on anti-depressant and still

have thoughts every day of suicide and self-harm.

The main thing you're doing for people

is keeping them alive, asking them not to harm themselves,

asking them not to to kill themselves.

- [Interviewer] Do you tell them you know things will get better?

- I tell them that yes, but I don't know how and when.

And they know I don't know that.

(water splashes)

- By the end of my time at the department

we were fully aware of the impact

on someone's mental health on detention.

And so it was a lot less of a reaction

to someone's self-harm, it was more seen

as a well that was inevitable.

I found that really difficult.

I found it difficult to work in a portfolio and a job

where our job was to implement a deterrence strategy

and we knew that doing so would mean people were damaged.

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- Children have to be in detention according to the

government's policies because it's part of the deterrence.

In detention over time they develop

a range of disorders, because it's miserable.

They're not given opportunities to participate

in normal sorts of activities

that children require for their development,

like opportunities to play even.

And then they have parents who are made sick as well,

who end up not being able to parent them.

And there's some very young babies in detention who,

they're not feeding properly, they're not gaining weight,

failing to thrive is the medical term.

So all of it is really harmful for children,

but it's considered the price that's required to stop boats.

(unsettling music)

- [Social Worker] What's your name?

- Elsie.

- [Social Worker] Who are you looking for?

(speaks foreign language)

- Huh?

They're growing up on white, phosphate rock

in mouldy, damp tents where they

have no privacy and no space.

You can't develop age appropriately in a place like that.

There's lots of behavioural issues.

You see kids throwing rocks, throwing chairs,

fighting with each other, isolating themselves.

You see kids self-harming.

You see kids banging their heads on walls

and banging their heads on rocks.

The use of boat IDs as names is rampant.

Children will sign artworks that they've drawn

with their boat ID; children will refer

to their friends by their boat ID.

It's like they've forgotten their own names.

It's like they've forgotten who they were

that they're actually human beings.

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- Sarah Hanson-Young, the Greens senator in Australia,

she collected so many toys for kids.

Finally they approved all these toys

and it was arrived in Nauru.

They gave the kids a little number

and this said, you have surprise tomorrow.

The kids line up after school, they give them a bag,

and they rip up the bag, and one of the kids

from Sri Lanka and she grabbed this toy,

and it was soft toy, and after months, months, and months

she grabbed this soft toy and she didn't know what do

with it, she just rubbed all over her neck and face,

and she was just screaming of the joy, and we,

like me and Save the Children we were just behind

the counter and we basically burst to tears.

We could not believe it that after one year

of being in detention centre she finally grabbed

a soft toy and she could hold it and it was hers.

And then we just felt like what the hell,

why we kept these kids in this condition.

(rock crunches)

(speaking foreign language)

(muted conversation)

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- [Interviewer] Do you feel any

guilt or any guilt at all about--

- None.

- About children being dealt with in detention.

- None whatsoever Neil.

- But there were ten year olds on suicide watch.

- Oh Neil, the most compassionate thing you can do

is stop the boats, we have stopped the boats.

(rock crunches)

- For some time now there have been persistent allegations

of serious physical and sexual abuse of children

and women incarcerated in Nauru.

After a very long time this led to the government

setting up an inquiry, which ultimately

ended up with what's called the Moss Report.

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- You see sexualized behaviours amongst the kids there.

- [Interviewer] Like what?

- Like kids touching themselves

or touching other kids in a sexualized manner.

- [Interviewer] How old were those kids?

- They're young, they're like under five.

Sexualized behaviour in kids of that age

suggests that they've had exposure

to sexual behaviour at an inappropriate age.

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The Nauru police force aren't trained to investigate

or work with kids, or to interview kids around disclosures.

The Nauru police work very slowly

and you often see no results, yeah,

there's been no repercussions that I know of.

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(speaking in foreign language)

(boat motor runs)

- We recognise that our border protection policy is tough.

We recognise many would see it as harsh, but it

has proven to be the only way to stop those deaths at sea.

(unsettling music)

- The argument is that we've got a right to put refugees

through hell or their children through hell,

because it will stop people dying,

better that they be mashed up in Nauru

and Manus Island than die at sea.

And the deaths are appalling.

But I think it is profoundly hypocritical,

profoundly hypocritical to claim that the policies

that are being pursued at the moment

by the Australian government are fundamentally

humanitarian because they stop these deaths.

- The deterrence measures of the sort

that the government is employing do nothing

to address the desperate circumstances

which are leading to people taking

those desperate measures to get to safety;

and really all they're doing is sweeping people

from our doorstep, so they don't die

on our doorstep, but may well die elsewhere.

(unsettling music)

- There was a room change one afternoon.

One of the transferees was outside, it started

to rain, the room change had taken hours,

and his possessions were getting wet.

I was standing at the door of his room,

he walked in briskly and I wasn't afraid,

I wasn't worried, I didn't think anything of it

but two expatriate New Zealand and Australian

security guards walked over to where he was

in the room and beat him against the wall,

and twisted his back over a metal bed frame

and punched him to unconsciousness.

I went and talked to the managers and they said

don't talk about it, it's not your problem.

Eventually I was interviewed by PNG police

and they shut the door behind me, and they threatened me

and told me I should change my statement.

They gave me all the other witness statements

that were by G4S and Salvation Army

managers who saw exactly what I saw

and had written in something completely different.

So I changed my statement to say that G4s only pushed him.

I didn't know what to do at that time

to get out of that situation, I was really scared.

(muted conversation)

- Security guards when for example, when the asylum seekers

are in the computer room would like aim their hands

like this and pretend to shoot at the back of their heads.

I saw guards say that they were gonna urinate

in the drinking water if the asylum seekers

wouldn't stop complaining about dirty water.

They'd be racist, they would call

them names and tell them to go home.

- There were a group that had served

in the Australian Defence Force

in a lot of the countries that asylum seekers

were actually coming from, so Afghanistan

was probably the main one, and then there were

a few others that had worked as bouncers

in night clubs on the Gold Coast and things like that.

They were very on edge and hyper-vigilant.

Yeah, that was really noticeable.

- [Male News Presenter] The large riot broke out

at a processing centre on Nauru.

15 security guards were injured

as 300 detainees broke out on the facility.

(man speaking in agony)

- [Male News Presenter] More than a hundred asylum seekers

have been transferred into police custody

after the violence, which caused $60,000,000 damage.

(unsettling music)

(protestors yelling)

- [Announcer] For two nights running

there's been chaos and disorder on Manus Island.

The government says last night's

unrest began with demonstrations.

- [Female Reporter] We've had very strong suggestions

from refugee advocates that this was an attack

from outside, the detainees inside were attacked

by PNG police is the assertion and also angry locals

which machetes and other weapons

and that maybe even several were shot.

There reports are very difficult

to wade our way through at the moment.

- [Male Reporter] I cannot confirm any of those reports.

Last night I heard there had been a black out

at the centre and that the protest was continuing.

(cries of agony and muted conversation)

- The veil of secrecy over the Manus Island detention centre

was partially lifted today with a report released

by the government into the February riots at the PNG centre.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison joins us.

When you read the account of Reza Barati's death,

it's very detailed, his skull was shattered,

he was beaten with sticks and kicked in the head

by more than 10 officers, Australians and locals,

did you have even a moment of doubt

about the morality of offshore detention centres?

- What occurred that night was criminal.

There was a terrible, tragic,

and distressing incident that took place

that night as you said in your introduction.

What I said we would do in response to this incident

is have an independent report that would answer

the question, that's what our police want to know.

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(chickens cluck)

(plates clank)

(TV presenter speaks in foreign language)

(cars whoosh)

- [Female News Presenter] A 24 year old

Iranian asylum seeker has died in a Brisbane hospital

tonight after his family agreed to have

his life-support machine switched off.

Hamid Kazhaei was pronounced brain dead earlier

this week after reportedly suffering

blood poisoning from an infected foot.

The asylum seeker was flown from Manus Island

to Brisbane last week, Scott Morrison says

the Immigration Department will

review the medical treatment he received.

- [Scott Morrison] Now I've asked

to review the medical treatment of this young man.

(water flows)

- Myself and two of my colleagues wrote explicitly

about medical concerns, in particular

infections starting in their feet.

Then a couple months later Hamid Kazhaei

still died of an infection starting in his foot,

and we had already told them months before,

and that's documented, day, time, and everything.

What we had said is transcribed.

We had a Senate inquiry into the death

of Reza Barati and I don't see anything changing.

I don't know what can help the men

at Manus Island or the people in Nauru.

We are telling the people what's happening

there and nothing's changing.

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- I'm Peter Dutton, Australian Minister

for Immigration and Border Protection.

I've recorded this message to

provide some important information.

You will know by now that plans are well under way

for the first group of refugees

to travel and settle in Cambodia.

Cambodian settlement provides a great opportunity

for refugees to move forward and begin the next phase

of their lives in a country that is free from persecution.

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- [Female News Presenter] Australia is now in a refugee partnership with Cambodia.

Even on pen the deal's been done.

Australia's provided a forty million dollar

down payment in additional aid.

Refugees from Nauru will be voluntarily

sent here in the months ahead.

Those who do come will be moving

to one of South-East Asia's poorest nations where

the average wage is less than a hundred dollars a month.

- The Cambodia deal shows that Australia can spend

any amount of money doing pretty much anything

to asylum seekers and the Australian people will

accept it because we don't want them here.

(unsettling music)

- I wanna make it very clear to all refugees

and transferees in Nauru that you will not

under any circumstances be settling in Australia.

This is not an option that the Australian

government will every present to you.

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- The current options for refugees on Nauru

are either to live in the community there temporarily,

to go to Cambodia, or to return home

to the real prospect of persecution.

- People don't see Nauru community as a good settlement

option, there are no jobs and if you do get a job,

you get paid three dollars, four dollars an hour.

The cost of living is very high.

There was an occasion when none of the supermarkets

even had any food and you were paying 20 dollars

for a two litre carton of milk.

They have no travel document, they have no options

of reunifying their family with them on Nauru.

You live in demountable blocks.

You have to share rooms, you have

to share houses with people you don't know.

You live behind high fences and these accommodation areas

are staffed by security because you're at risk from locals.

The locals make threats to the women.

They'll say when you get out of camp, I'm gonna rape you,

or they'll proposition them for sex.

A lot of the women are very scared to go into the community.

(unsettling music)

- The Nauru government has declared

that the detention centre will become an open centre,

24 hours per day, seven days per week, from today.

It says that all asylum seekers are now free

to move around the island at their will.

Nauru is promising it will finalise all remaining

refugee claims within the next week.

Hundreds will have to integrate

into the tiny island's population.

Can the Australian government guarantee the safety

of the people as they're released

into the Nauruan communities, particularly given

that women and children, 67 allegations of child abuse,

33 claims of rape and sexual assault on Nauru.

Can the Australian government

guarantee these people's safety?

- Well Emma, the Australian government,

or the Queensland, or New South Wales,

Victoria government can't provide you with that guarantee

for people coming out into the Australian society.

We've provided additional support through the

Australian Federal Police to mentor those police on Nauru,

to help with them with investigations, with prosecutions,

to make sure that we can provide support

to have an environment that is as safe as possible.

- People are returning home more now than they ever were,

returning to their country of origin and then attempting

to seek asylum again in a different country.

Nothing's changed for them in their home countries,

often they'll state that they

are returning to extreme danger.

It's really hard to hear that they feel

like that's their only option.

It's hard to feel proud to be an Australian citizen.

There's a lot of shame now associated

with being an Australian for myself,

because of the way Australia's treating people.

I keep going back for clients and for my colleagues.

You have clients when you go on your respite, say to you

before you're going: "are you coming back?

Please come back, please don't forget

about us, please don't leave us here."

So that is really hard to hear and you wanna come back

for them, you want something to change

and you want to advocate for them and fight for them.

And that keeps bringing you back for that feeling

gets worn down by the constant blockages you get

from immigration and the lack of change.

- Operation wise, everything I was trying to bring to

the attention of management, nothing's been done about it.

I got to a personal level of this

has got to stop and I can't stop it.

I was becoming emotional, there was a lot

of stressors starting to fall upon me,

because I'd voiced my opinion loudly about

what we were doing as a company.

I found a hand-written note on my bed suggesting

that I should shut up or somehow would come to myself.

And then I received a message that I continued on

that the great possibility that I would be found floating

alongside the HMS Choules at some stage.

That scared the shit out of me, that really did

and I pulled the pin, I said enough's enough.

It sat with me for quite a number of months

and if I didn't speak out, who was going to?

I've got a conscience and I was brought up the right way

and I don't understand how we can do this to each other.

So I felt that it was my turn, my time,

it was the right thing to do.

People need to talk out, we need

to tell each other what's going on.

(unsettling music)

- I think Australians are pretty sick of being lectured to.

I really think Australians are sick

of being lectured to by the United Nations, particularly,

particularly given that we have stopped the boats.

(despairing music)

- [Male News Presenter] Thousands are stranded at sea,

but the PM says he doesn't want

to encourage people to risk their lives on boats.

- [Female News Presenter] The Prime Minister

has ruled out resettling any Rohingya asylum seekers

in Australia despite claims from Malaysia

and Indonesia, the load to be shared among the region.

The United States has offered to take a lead role

in resolving this crisis, we simply don't know

how many people are out there and they are drifting at sea.

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- [Interviewer] If it was up to you now,

which country would you head for?

- I think all of person in the boat

now want to go to Australia.

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- It was the right thing to do.

We didn't have an option.

The fact that we had been fighting in Vietnam

added to the sense of obligation that I felt.

Within hours we persuaded Malaysia

to establish a processing centre.

People were processed, often quite quickly in a month

or two, and if they were coming

to Australia they were flown to Australia.

So there was no danger of people drowning at sea

once they'd go to their processing centre in Malaysia.

As a consequence of accepting Vietnamese refugees

we have a very vigorous, very loyal,

Australian Vietnamese community, which adds to our culture,

adds to our wealth, adds to the diversity of Australia

in very productive and beneficial ways.

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- [Tony Abbott] Well what we do is we stop the boats,

by hook or by crook because that's what we've got to do

and that's what we've successfully done.

And I just don't want to go into

the details of how it's done.

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