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It takes faith to ask for help
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Houri, a 28-year-old Iranian primary school teacher, is floating in an inner tube in the shark-infested waters of the Indian Ocean. She holds up her six-month baby son to the Australian Navy officers on board one of two small crafts deployed by HMAS Albany. Although she is speaking a foreign language her meaning is clear: “Take my baby! Take my baby!”
It’s July 16, 2013. In eight weeks Tony Abbott will become prime minister and enact his “Stopthe Boats” policy.
Houri, her husband and her two tiny children had boarded their boat, number 795, in Bogor, Indonesia, with about 150 other asylum seekers from Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, heading........