September 12, 2026 — 1:30pm

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No spreadsheet could capture how it felt to be one of the 150 Hazara men, women and children stepping down onto the deck of the Norwegian cargo boat MV Tampa in 2001, after their rapidly sinking refugee boat was rescued in the middle of the Indian Ocean .

The image of Australian soldiers helping them to take a leap of faith is seared into my memory still now, 25 years later.

No accountant’s ledger can measure the relief those families who came so close to safety on our shores felt when they were offered a new…

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