Courage for change

How unspeakably sad it was to read Mehdi Ali’s piece about his indefinite detention, knowing this is happening in Australia, the country of my birth (“Outside the gates of hell”, February 26– March 4). What have we become that we allow this to happen? We are horrified at the current atrocity being perpetrated by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on the people of Ukraine, but very few voices are heard in support of people whose only wish was for safe refuge in what they thought was a civilised country. My hope is that the next Labor government has the courage to release all those who have been cruelly incarcerated and to assist them to live normal, free lives.

– Maureen Goldie, Blackwood, SA