Temporary

During the pandemic, the federal government said we were ‘all in this together’ – but what about the refugees in Temporary?

Back in 2013, the Australian government condemned 30,000 people seeking safety to mandatory detention and temporary protection, leaving thousands of people like Hani caught in the middle

A father lives in anxious uncertainty, enduring an opaque reapplication process that could result in his being torn away from his family, who have received permanent protection in Australia

Arman left Afghanistan as a teenager and has made a life for himself in Sydney, but now he faces an uncertain future

Every one of the 30,000 asylum seekers in Australia’s ‘legacy caseload’ was detained. The average time spent in detention is 564 days but some people have been detained for more than a decade. In this episode of Temporary, we meet Kumar, who was moved from detention centre to detention centre for over three years