• Part 7: Does Australia’s asylum seeker policy actually work?

  • Dec 17 2020
  • Length: 22 mins
  • Podcast

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Part 7: Does Australia’s asylum seeker policy actually work?

  • Summary

  • In part 7 of Temporary we meet Hani. Back in 2013, with Operation Sovereign Borders, the Australian government launched an outright war on asylum seekers, condemning 30,000 people seeking safety to mandatory detention and temporary protection, leaving thousands of people like Hani, a young poet from Somalia, caught in the middle. Years after the harsh deterrence policies were implemented, we ask: have they actually worked?
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