Acts of Cruelty

This is a book about passion, danger, departures and arrivals. It’s about the desires and disappointments of people seeking Australia’s protection who arrive by plane. It’s also about the dishonesty and deceit practised by the

Australian Department of Immigration whose xenophobic nature goes all the way back to the White Australia Policy, terra nullius and the early days of the colony.

Ngareta Rossell, Journalist.

This book tells the uplifting story of human endeavour to help people tackle the challenges of the Australian legal system, as it applies to non-citizens arriving by planes with valid entry visas, but who thereafter claim protection under the Migration Act 1958 on grounds expressed in the Refugees Convention 1951.

From the Foreword by Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG

Aileen is a nun of the Franciscan Order of Missionaries of Mary in Sydney, Australia. She has been a long term advocate of refugee rights. She was awarded a PhD from the University of New South Wales for her research into the refugee determination process for asylum seekers who have arrived by plane.