The Afghan family who are safe at last and full of hope, thanks to an Australia Pauline Hanson will never know

‘People we had never met decided that our lives mattered’: the Ibrahim family in Apollo Bay, Victoria. Photograph: Douglas Gimesy/The Guardian

They came in the chill of winter to hear their speaker, a man known to most only as a name.

“Thank you,” Mohammad Ibrahim told the people of Apollo Bay. “Today I am proud to call Australia my home.”