Last Man on Manus Island – Papua New Guinea
July 2005
Australia’s tough immigration policies are exemplified by the case of Aladdin Sisalem, a Palestinian refugee who was dispatched to Manus Island when he appealed on his arrival in Australia for asylum. Manus Island is outside Australian borders, but immigrants without a legitimate claim to asylum in Australia are routinely dispatched there. When Aladdin arrived at Manus detention centre, there were about 150 people inmates. Now they have all left, and he is alone with nothing to do and no one to see except prison guards and a solitary cat. Punctuated with some stunning views of the surrounding countryside, Dateline interviews some of the key players who can shape Aladdin’s future, including his Australian lawyer, and the Australian minister responsible for immigration and cultural affairs. For Aladdin, meanwhile, the outlook remains bleak, and he admits to deteriorating sanity even as he spends his days using his computer to try to find a way out of this most unusual and life-sapping of situations for a refugee in the twenty-first century.
Produced by SBS/Dateline
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
Duration : 0:18:55
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My dad spern over a …
My dad spern over a year on that atoll in WW2 unlike this guy he had no computers airconditioners or internet. He was a conscript of Uncle Sam.
He doesn’t look …
He doesn’t look like he has suffered nice haircut well fed computer privilages.
what a disgrace on …
what a disgrace on australia this case is! i used to live there before 1981 and i was amazed by the deep racism. i had heard that this had changed alot, but this video proves that wrong. when is the world going to open its eyes to the awful plight of palestinian refugees?
they should just …
they should just fly him home and save all that money of running a camp designed for a thousand people
nutin to do wit …
nutin to do wit racism, everything to do with security. if i as a christian went to their homeland as an elegal, i would be picked up and gone. blame aussie all u like, but he chose to take his path, and thats what he got. he wanna leave, but go back to the middle east. yes Aust is free, but come in the front door, not like a crim through the back door. & no Im not a racist. and i am not white. cant blame Aussie for his life, they want to fight & have war in M east then such is life full stop.
i think that fat …
i think that fat aussie in the video should be sent to kuait
them white …
them white australian women sure love black me though
kuwaits problem
kuwaits problem
yes indeed …
yes indeed Australia is one of the last standing son of a racist nations on earth.
u are amazing for …
u are amazing for uploading all these video thank you very very much..
shame on Australia! …
shame on Australia!
I didn’t realize racism is that institutionalized in Australia.