Ahmed spent six years in immigration detention before he won a landmark legal case and…
Mark IsaacsJune 20, 2022
This is a short extract from a chapter in a collection titled Creative writing practice :…
Mark IsaacsOctober 28, 2021
Step foot inside the Manus Island Detention centre in the midst of an international humanitarian…
Mark IsaacsDecember 22, 2017
An in-depth investigation into the humanitarian disaster unfolding on Manus Island.
Mark IsaacsDecember 11, 2017
"This was not the Manus people's decision. The refugees want to go to Australia. They…
Mark IsaacsNovember 18, 2017
A high school teachers' resource, commissioned by Hardie Grant, to study The Undesirables: Inside Nauru…
Mark IsaacsAugust 5, 2017
A high school teachers' resource to study Nauru Burning as an English text. It is…
Mark IsaacsJuly 21, 2017
This extract from my second book, Nauru Burning, describes the days after the 2013 riot…
Mark IsaacsFebruary 26, 2017
Hardie Grant Books has decided to launch a second edition of my book The Undesirables:…
Mark IsaacsDecember 28, 2016
Peter Dutton is sick and tired of “political correctness gone mad”, according to his interview…
Mark IsaacsDecember 21, 2016
This is an excerpt from Robin de Crespigny's award-winning book, The People Smuggler: The true…
Mark IsaacsDecember 20, 2016
Ali is a Hazara man from Afghanistan trying to seek asylum in Australia. In Part…
Mark IsaacsOctober 26, 2016
It is with great pleasure (and relief) that my book, Nauru Burning: An uprising and…
Mark IsaacsOctober 21, 2016
Ali is a Hazara man from Afghanistan trying to seek asylum in Australia. Part 4…
Mark IsaacsOctober 17, 2016
High school teachers' resource to study The Undesirables: Inside Nauru as an English text available…
Octopus KingOctober 5, 2016
When faced with overwhelming evidence of systemic abuse, the Australian government shifted responsibility and blamed…
Mark IsaacsAugust 22, 2016
The Refugee Council of Australia asked me to write a piece for their campaign against…
Mark IsaacsMay 27, 2016
A fictional short story about the gradual erosion of a man's spirit in the Australian…
Mark IsaacsMarch 30, 2016
Robin de Crespigny, author of the People Smuggler, writes an essay come creative non-fiction piece…
Mark IsaacsMarch 18, 2016
Greg Lake writes about his work for the Department of Immigration, managing Immigration Detention Centres…
Mark IsaacsMarch 11, 2016
Professor David Isaacs, a consultant paediatrician in Westmead Children's Hospital and a clinical professor at…
Mark IsaacsMarch 1, 2016
A guest post from a group of people currently waiting for resettlement in Indonesia who…
Mark IsaacsFebruary 20, 2016
On Sunday 14 February, I will be discussing the treatment of people seeking asylum in…
Mark IsaacsFebruary 13, 2016
Bondi Beach community joined the 'Let Them Stay' campaign to protest the Government's plan to…
Mark IsaacsFebruary 11, 2016
Thousands of Australians across the country protested against the Government's proposed plan to return 267…
Mark IsaacsFebruary 10, 2016
It's a strange world when the Australian Department of Immigration simultaneously suppresses the truth and…
Mark IsaacsFebruary 10, 2016
In the current political climate of secrecy that envelops Australia's treatment of people seeking asylum…
Mark IsaacsJanuary 22, 2016
We have been told by governments past and present that stopping the boats is a…
Mark IsaacsJanuary 4, 2016
Ali arrives in Indonesia and begins his search for a people smuggler to take him…
Mark IsaacsDecember 14, 2015
How do displaced people seeking protection and resettlement in Indonesia survive the tough, restrictive conditions?…
Mark IsaacsDecember 9, 2015
Ali tells his story of how he left Afghanistan and Pakistan en route to Indonesia.
Mark IsaacsDecember 3, 2015
I visit Ashkan, an Iranian man living in Jakarta, Indonesia, who is trying to seek…
Mark IsaacsNovember 22, 2015
Ali is a Hazara man stranded in Indonesia hoping for resettlement to Australia. This is…
Mark IsaacsNovember 20, 2015
You who live in the land of plenty, safe from war, torture, and civil unrest,…
Mark IsaacsNovember 3, 2015
I travelled to Indonesia to meet people who are waiting for resettlement to Australia. I…
Mark IsaacsOctober 26, 2015
This is an excerpt of an article published by VICE Australia regarding the Australian government's…
Mark IsaacsOctober 22, 2015
On Friday 19th July 2013, it was reported that over 150 asylum seekers had rioted…
Mark IsaacsOctober 13, 2015
The speech I gave at the Refugee Action Collective rally against offshore detention, held in…
Mark IsaacsOctober 13, 2015
A short analysis of Australia's humanitarian approach to 'saving lives at sea'.
Mark IsaacsOctober 13, 2015
A statement by past and present Salvation Army staff members condemning the treatment of those…
Mark IsaacsOctober 13, 2015
Every person has a breaking point. When you are pushed and prodded towards the brink,…
Mark IsaacsOctober 13, 2015