Minister Alan Tudge Archives

Sri Lankan refugee makes desperate plea for freedom, stuck in a Brisbane hotel room – By Peter Bugden Cry for freedom: Raj is among more than 120 refugees detained at the Kangaroo Point Central Hotel Source:Catholic Leader “I DON’T have any hope, because I’ve lost it all. Now I am just one body here, not a soul, because I’m too tired, mentally sick,” says a 39-year-old man in a Brisbane hotel room pleading for freedom. Raj is a Tamil refugee, a businessman from Sri Lanka who Australia has held in immigration detention for seven years. As a political refugee he is afraid to give his full name, and he doesn’t want his parents back home to know what he is going through. ...