Today, I went to the Visit to see a Sister of a church. I thought that the centre had introduced a new policy on 2 January to undertake a pat search of a detainee when entering into and coming out of the Visits. At least, when I went to see visitors last week, the reception was in chaos as a result. Today, there was no search. No havoc. Did they abolish the new policy in less than ten days? Well, if so, it's good since the search was plainly meaningless but creating huge havoc and chaos. But couldn't they think what is going to happen if they introduce such a policy BEFORE actually introducing it??? Anyway, when I was talking with the sister, I saw a guard with whom I often had a chat passing by. I said to him, 'Hi!' and he came to join us. I told him about my current battle against the Acting Health Services Manager who is a registered nurse. She refused to book an optometrist for me despite that she was directed to...
100 days in the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre