Last night, I had a headache and could not sleep. So I went to the guards' station and asked for paracetamol. The guard telephoned a nurse who was on a break and would not return for another five minutes. So I waited. The guard called the nurse again but this time, the nurse was on the phone with someone. According to the guard, one nurse is receiving all calls from all detention centres in this country so that it could take long for her to get a permission to give me paracetamol. The guard put the phone on hold and waited for five minutes. No signs of the nurse picking up the guard's call. So I decided to fill in a complaint form. I wrote the first complaint form without using my glasses. I could not see anything well but usually, my writing is still legible. But since it was very uncomfortable to write anything without actually seeing it, I took the case of my reading glasses out of my bag, opened the c...
100 days in the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre