Behrouz Boochani in Australia: ‘Some of those politicians who barred me are gone. But I am here’

‘Our voice is important, because we see politics in Australia in a unique way, our perspective needs to be shared here’: Behrouz Boochani in Melbourne. Photograph: Penny Stephens/The Guardian

Peter Dutton once insisted Behrouz Boochani would not be allowed to come to Australia. Boochani just did – and he says he was always confident he would prove Dutton wrong.

He casts it as a victory of culture over politics, of resistance overcoming power.