On Thursday 7th April, the Park Hotel-Prison (in which dozens of people had been detained in torturous limbo for over a year) finally stood empty, and almost all of those who found themselves locked up in Australia after being ‘medevac-ed’ here from PNG and Nauru for supposed medical treatment were able to walk free for the first time in 9 years.

This is something to be celebrated. …

Read more from the May 2022 Olive Branch.