A high school teachers' resource, commissioned by Hardie Grant, to study The Undesirables: Inside Nauru…
Mark IsaacsAugust 5, 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
It is with great pleasure (and relief) that my book, Nauru Burning: An uprising and…
Mark IsaacsOctober 21, 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
On April 26, the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea declared Australia’s detention of asylum…
Mark IsaacsMay 3, 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
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
You who live in the land of plenty, safe from war, torture, and civil unrest,…
Mark IsaacsNovember 3, 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