I have lived in Australia since 1983, although I grew up in Britain. I am 59 and a retired nurse.
I do what I can to stop the persecution of refugees by the Australian government. There are 1,500 people held hostage, on Manus and Nauru, as well as thousands in the mainland Australian gulag. Thank you, Guardian Weekly, for publishing Behrouz Boochani, Australia’s own Solzhenitsyn.
I was active in the movement to free East Timor from Indonesian military occupation. I was just one of many honoured with the Order of Timor in 2015.
I love the Guardian Weekly. I read the Guardian in England, and I must have been reading the Guardian Weekly when I was living in New Zealand because I remember that very light airmail paper.
The Guardian Weekly is something I look forward to buying every Thursday. Ben Doherty writes in the local online Guardian, and I am pleased when he is in the Guardian Weekly. I love it when George Monbiot has a column and pass it on to Vivien, my wife, who has interviewed him on her climate action radio show on 3CR in Melbourne, Beyond Zero Emissions.
