Julian Burnside will be launching Blind Conscience by award-winning television journalist Margot O’Neill. She tells for the first time the profoundly moving story of Australia’s diverse refugee advocacy and protests movement which ranged from left wing radicals to top flight medical specialists, from barristers to middle aged mothers and from nuns to Liberal politicians.

This book includes compelling insiders’ accounts of the dissident Liberal politicians who took on their own government to force through reforms, revealing for the first time the details of their emotionally charged meeting with Prime Minster John Howard at the Lodge; as well as hair-raising accounts from radical activists of their efforts to help detainees escape across the desert and find sanctuary in a hastily arranged Australian underground.

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