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Dawood Amiri

Confessions of a People-Smuggler by Dawood Amiri & The Undesirables by Mark Isaacs

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October 2014, no. 365
Peter Mares reviews 'Confessions of a People-Smuggler' by Dawood Amiri and 'The Undesirables: Inside Nauru' by Mark Isaacs

After an explosion that killed five asylum seekers and injured dozens more on a boat moored at Ashmore Reef in 2009, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd described people smugglers as ‘the absolute scum of the earth’ and ‘the vilest form of human life’. Further tragedies at sea during the ‘fifth wave’ of boat arrivals to Australia provoked similar outbursts from politicians across the political spectrum.

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