The Architecture of Injustice II

This panel is followed by a AV link keynote address delivered by human rights advocate, journalist, film-maker and writer, Behrouz Boochani, who has been detained by the Australian government since 2013. His memoir, No Friend But The Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison, won the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Nonfiction in January 2019. The book was written on a mobile phone in a series of single messages over time and translated from Farsi into English by Omid Tofighian. Noted barrister, human rights and refugee advocate, and author, Julian Burnside AO QC, joins Boochani for this in-conversation event.