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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Doherty

‘We just sit here’: the broken men Australia’s offshore detention regime left behind in Papua New Guinea

Samad Abdul looking to camera with his hands clasped in front of his chin
Samad Abdul was taken to Manus Island after Kevin Rudd’s 2013 declaration that boat-borne asylum seekers would never settle in Australia – and has been held in PNG ever since. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

“Manus is closed. Detention is over, but we are detained still. We are here still, people are suffering a lot still. Every day we get worse, we are dying a little bit more. But nobody cares about us.”

Here on a dusty hill on the edge of Port Moresby is the ragged, desperate end to Australia’s illegal offshore detention regime in Papua New Guinea.

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