![]() ![]() ![]() After having watched the Taleban creep ever closer, wiping out anyone who they believed 'represented. On Seachange we hear the inside story from the Tampa’s Chief Mate, a young Hazara man he rescued, from former Minister for Immigration Philip Ruddock and then Leader of the Opposition Kim Beazley. Abbas Nazari was born in Afghanistan, and knew little about the world beyond his village. The incident sparked an international diplomatic crisis and was the catalyst for dramatic change in Australia’s border protection policy.Ī tumultuous few months followed – the September 11 terrorist attacks, the introduction of offshore detention and processing of asylum seekers and the Children Overboard Affair - all leading up to the 2001 federal election. He is a Fulbright New Zealand scholar in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown. The ship’s captain ignored the Australian government’s direction to take the asylum seekers to the Indonesian port of Merak and instead headed for Christmas Island. Abbas Nazari fled Afghanistan with his family as a child in 2001, eventually resettling in Christchurch. On Auga Norwegian container ship - the MV Tampa – rescued 438 asylum seekers from a sinking boat. ![]()
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