Ahmed spent six years in immigration detention before he won a landmark legal case and…
Mark IsaacsJune 20, 2022
In the summer of 2019, Australia had the worst bushfires on record. These two episodes…
Mark IsaacsJune 17, 2020
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been an overload of information on…
Mark IsaacsMarch 31, 2020
In response to the recent coronavirus pandemic, there has been an overload of information on…
Mark IsaacsMarch 24, 2020
In Australia it’s hard for newly arrived refugees to find a new job. In 2011,…
Mark IsaacsFebruary 17, 2020
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 to study Nauru Burning as an English text. It is…
Mark IsaacsJuly 21, 2017
The Responsibility to Protect report is the continuation of the Edmund Rice Centre’s determination to…
Mark IsaacsJuly 10, 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
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
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
On April 26, the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea declared Australia’s detention of asylum…
Mark IsaacsMay 3, 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
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
Advocating for the better treatment of people seeking asylum in Australia can often be a…
Mark IsaacsNovember 29, 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
I meet a Rohingya man in Australia after having visited his home in the Rhakine…
Mark IsaacsNovember 13, 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