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Keneally writes an apology in the form of a letter to 'Shooty' an asylum seeker who committed suicide in Villawood Detention Centre.
Source: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/vaunted-values-too-slow-to-save-neglected-son-from-fatal-despair-20111101-1mttl.html (Sighted 16/03/12)'If we could summon up your soul from that place, we would offer you our useless apologies. If we could summon up your soul, we would ask it to remain among us - the man who was on the brink of Australian-ness, led to water, not allowed to drink. But for now, mandatory detention rolls on, a wheel that crushes many and avails Australia nothing.'
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Last amended 16 Mar 2012 11:34:53
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- Villawood, Bankstown area, Sydney Southwest, Sydney, New South Wales,
- 2011
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