Freedom Stories

2015 · PG · Politics

“Boat people” who arrived from the Middle East around the watershed year of 2001 were locked in remote detention centres and then placed on temporary protection visas. Their limbo lasted for years. Now Australian citizens, they are building secure lives and contributing to their new country.

Directed by: Steve Thomas

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