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Packed-out lecture hears Behrouz Boochani talk of freedom
Kurdish Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani launched his new book, Freedom, Only Freedom, on December 13 as part of the 2022 Wallace Wurth Lecture.
Refugee Advice and Casework service with the University of New South Wales Centre for Ideas and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law were his hosts.
- Niko Leka
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If consecutive Australian governments had not locked him up and treated refugees so badly, Boochani would not be a household name.
Boochani was imprisoned on Manus Island in July 2013 by Kevin Rudd’s Labor government, where he remained until the…