Inside Australia's Immigration Detention

One girl got a broken bone in her arm, I think, today.  I heard there had been a fight in the shop since one of the girls pushed the other's back.  The one who, I heard, caused the injury is one of my former roommates.  She was quiet, neat, tidy, calm and pleasant, in my impression....  The one who got a broken bone lives in a couple doors away from my room.  She is a quiet, well-groomed, intelligent and elegant girl, in my impression.  I cannot believe that there was a fight between those two....  I think both are Kiwi, but I am not sure. According to one of my friends (guy/gay), one of the centre managers said that the girls' compound (Lima) had more problems than the male compounds.  I often hear guards talking to each other about who was sent to Lima.  So it seems, my building is the place where the guards are scared to work.  Mmmmm...   Today, I went to Charity Walk, women's knitting class and Personal Circuit at ...

From the night when my roommate Ms Serial Thief created a big fuss in my room,  I began to be told by guards and other detainees that I look tired.  Actually,  I am tired.  I am too old to deal with all these nonsensical,  idiosyncratic, preposterous people every day. Ms Serial Thief has not moved out of my room but a guard is constantly  following her.  That might prevent her from engaging in her notorious  habit but that certainly interferes with my privacy as a side effect.   I could not sleep last night because a guard kept open and shut the  door every 15 minutes or otherwise the door was wide open to the  lounge room where the TV was loudly on.  Since I could not sleep, I  turned on my bed light (not a room light) and started reading a case.  T hen Ms Serial Thief complained!  Why should she be able to sleep  while I cannot sleep because of her?   Thank goodness, the guard told her she...

Yesterday's lunchtime, detainees launched the protest on food  quality.  They complained that foods served here were the same every day.  At the dinner  time, protest/boycott  continued.  The ABF did not come to talk despite  that Serco central management promised to arrange the ABF to come to  talk.  But the dinner menu was different from most days.  Today, again  very different from a usual  meal.  Detainees got satisfied and the  protest ended.  I could not believe it!!  Never happened in 2006.  No  matter what detainees said, everything was just ignored in 2006.  Now, the ABF  act in the same way as everyone did in 2006 but apparently, Serco acts  differently. Yesterday, I made a complaint about the stealing to every possible  person.  My case manager of the Immigration simply passed my complaint  to the ABF.  The ABF which received my complaint form ignored...

I  usually got up around 5:30am and use a computer until 7:30am then go t o brekkie.  This morning's job was sending an email to the Court  informing that I submitted the Amended Originating Application and  asking the court for arranging a pro bono lawyer for an early hearing  before Christmas.  I told my intention of this application to the  Minister's expensive lawyers last week so they must be happily  negotiating with the Minister for extra fees. I have not been able to assemble my legal team since my faulty pro  bono solicitor stuffed up.  My Partner has been furious against the lawyer.   I am not.  I used him knowing that he was liable for malpractice as a  migration agent.  One of my former colleagues in a law school taught  students 'if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys'.  You can't be angry at  a monkey. Anyway, one of the public interest clearing houses and a legal aid  that I ap...