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Hi Virginia, please find below an abstract, my project introduction, and an extract from one ofthe later chapters.
Abstract:
'Coming to Australia: Voices from the SIEV-4' charts the journey of one Iraqi family as theymake their way to Australian shores. Nahar Sobbi and her three young children eventually foundthemselves aboard the boat which became synonymous with the 'Children Overboard Affair',however their entire journey was a prolonged two year passage. Crossing mountains inIndonesia, enduring months of incarceration in a Malaysian prison, and a mother's personalstruggle with fear and alienation. This is the story of the Australian Asylum Seeker.
Introduction:
The Asylum-Seeker
The Children Overboard Affair is an event in Australian history that lingers in public memory. The exposure and filtering of the story in the media is such that many Australians stilldo not understand what really took place. Some may not have followed the story closely orthrough to its resolution and some may have been exposed only to highly subjective accounts.
By now many would have forgotten most of the story's details. There is nevertheless a sharedlegacy resulting from these events. In the Australian public's collective memory there remainsonly a faint notion of what an asylum-seeker is and of how our government and the public reactto them.
photographs were taken, nor any video footage of faces, and there were certainly no interviewswith the aslyum-seekers. The Rudd government has taken a different approach and now theboats which are arriving are subject to media freedoms not exercised in more than a decade. Iseek to reassert those freedoms on the past, by harking back to the SIEV-4, and charting thejourney of one family aboard that boat: Nahar Sobbi, and her three children Emin, Yasmin, andAdamWhile the journey of the SIEV-4 is well documented, this was only the end of thejourney for the Sobbi family. What is left unexplored is the vast majority of their two yearordeal of reaching Australia. What does it really take for these sea-faring escapees to reachAustralia? And who are they? “They boarded the boat named the Olong. The children's clothes were soon dirty as a result oftheir dysentery and Yasmin had soon developed sea-sickness. The boat set sail and the skydarkened. Still there was no ship with its individual cabins. It soon became clear that this was going to be their only boat. Nahar is haunted by the purple colour of the sea at this moment, 'it'sa weird colour, up to now I remember the colour of the ocean [sic]'.Nahar peered out of asmall window and began to talk to her parents, praying for them to hear her and save her fromher nightmare. The boat was rocking wildly in the ocean as the colour of the sea and the colourof the sky became merged and indistinguishable. As the boat plunged from one side to the next,Nahar was certain it would not survive. She thought to herself 'I will never forgive myself forwhat I have made for the children. it was my decision, it was a wrong decision, please don'tpunish them because I took this decision'.” Marr, D, Wilkinson, M, Dark Victory, Allen and Unwin: Crows Nest, 2003, p. 258

Source: http://www.phansw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/LenaHattom2009.pdf