Monday! The start of a brand new week, thank goodness. Last week was not really nice. First, one of my friends went to the Tribunal for her appeal from the Immigration's decision to refuse to grant her a bridging visa. I knew the prospect was not good since her case was heard by a notable(?!) member of the Tribunal, who is a former adviser to Tony Abbott. He said all sorts of nice things to her at the hearing so my poor friend who is very young heightened her hope. Then he decided against her. I thought he would do. Another friend got a disappointing notice, too. In his case, from the lawyer acting for the Immigration. He was asked for a consent to an extension of time to file some documents for the reason the Immigration was reviewing his matter. I told him that the normal way was to not give them a consent and drafted a standard two-line letter for him. But he strongly believed that the Immigrat...
100 days in the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre