Temporary

By: The Guardian
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  • Summary

  • Caught in Australia’s campaign to ‘stop the boats’ were 30,000 people who landed, only to enter a legal limbo. Temporary is an eight-part podcast series that showcases stories from those seeking asylum in Australia
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Episodes
  • Episode 8: Left behind in a global pandemic

    Episode 8: Left behind in a global pandemic
    Apr 16 2021
    The pandemic put everyone in limbo. For the first time, many Australians understood what it meant to be stranded, unable to cross borders, separated from loved ones. The federal government said we were ‘all in this together’ – but what about the refugees in Temporary? And what’s ahead for them? Sisonke Msimang interviews Sarah Dale, the director of the Refugee Advice and Casework Service, to find out
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    19 mins
  • Part 7: Does Australia’s asylum seeker policy actually work?

    Part 7: Does Australia’s asylum seeker policy actually work?
    Dec 17 2020
    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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    22 mins
  • Part 6: Stuck in an endless loop

    Part 6: Stuck in an endless loop
    Dec 14 2020
    One family. All devout pacifists, they all fled the same dangers and all of them are recognised refugees in Australia. The mother and children were resettled from overseas and now have permanent protection. But their father arrived by boat. He lives in anxious uncertainty, enduring an opaque reapplication process that could result in his being torn away from them
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    22 mins

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