Ruddock: The man who called a refugee child “it”

  In August 2001, 6 year-old Shayan Badraie, an Iranian asylum seeker who arrived by boat in Australia with his family, became seriously ill with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder after spending seventeen months in the Woomera and Villawood  detention centres. During the time he was detained with his family, Shayan witnessed suicide attempts, and great unrest within […]