Ruth Halbert
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Blog: Dear Prime Minister

On July 30 2016 I started writing letters to the Prime Minister of Australia to protest against the imprisonment and torture of the asylum seekers in the offshore detention centres of Manus Island and Nauru. I started with the intention of writing a letter a day for every person in detention until they are all freed. There are more than 1800 asylum seekers in off shore detention. These are those letters and any response from Mr Turnbull.

Letters to Tyranny #17

Dear Prime Minister,

The seventeenth asylum seeker on Manus Island as Mr XXX XXX, born in 19XX. He and the other 853 men on Manus Island are in a situation too dire and irrational even for George Orwell to write into a novel. They have been found to be refugees but Papua New Guinea does not seem to have the means to resettle them. These men are Australia's responsibility. Can you show leadership and return these men to Australia?

Yours faithfully

Ruth Halbert

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