It's 1.50pm on a sunny and gentle autumn day at Cottesloe Beach. Stunning. We walk into a local cafe – the only cafe that has a sunny, north facing, grassed outdoor area on the whole beachfront - with several guests. We walk inside to the counter with the reasonable intent of ordering a meal and a coffee. A girl in the front of the queue asks for a bowl of soup. "Hang on love, I'll check." comes the response from behind the counter. "Hey Rob. Any soup still on?" Rob (apparently he …
The shocking story of a 13 year-old boy, called Ali Jasmin, and an uncaring bureaucracy... This is the story of a 13 year-old boy named Ali Yasmin (Or Jasmin as we call him in Australia). Yasmin Ali is an Indonesian child who has been locked-up in a Western Australian maximum security prison for over two years when he should be home in a remote village of Indonesia with his mum and dad. The WA-based Indonesia Institute - who have been campaigning for the release of Indonesian children from Australian jails for over two yea…
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