Book Launch: Nauru Burning
Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 28 Nov 2016
17:45 - 18:45
Location
Paperchain Bookstore
Categories
Paperchain bookstore will be holding the Canberra launch of Nauru Burning: An uprising and its aftermath, by Mark Isaacs.
The book will be launched by Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young.
The book is published by Canberra-based small press Editia.
Monday November 28
5.45 for 6.00pm
RSVP
Telephone 6295 6723 or
email info@paperchainbookstore.com.
In Nauru Burning: An uprising and its aftermath, Mark Isaacs goes behind the veil of secrecy around Australia’s offshore immigration detention centres to reveal a climate of fear and hopelessness, culminating in the riot and fire which destroyed much of the Nauru regional processing centre in July 2013. The book reveals how the tinderbox ignited and examines the investigation into who was responsible. It is the story of the fight of the men in detention to prove their innocence, and of the workers who tried to help them.
Ultimately, it is a comment on the lack of accountability and oversight for service providers in the deliberately remote and closed environment of Australia’s offshore detention centres.
“Mark Isaacs’s insight into the events that led up to the riot and fire at the Nauru refugee detention centre, and its aftermath, should concern every Australian. This book is graphic evidence of dark practices directly linked to Australia’s immigration and border protection policies. It is a shameful story that needed to be told. Mark Isaacs has rightly taken a stand against a policy of secrecy and lack of scrutiny that may have hidden the truth forever.” – Tim Costello, CEO, World Vision Australia
Mark Isaacs is a writer, community worker, adventurer, campaigner for social justice and author of The Undesirables: Inside Nauru (Hardie Grant, 2014).
During a nine-year stint as Greens immigration spokesperson, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young was one of Federal Parliament’s most vocal critics of offshore detention. She helped expose the abuse of women and children in detention on Nauru after a 2013 visit during which she alleges guards spied on her.
