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Former Tampa refugee Abbas Nazari at Word Christchurch 2021
enMarch 06, 2022
About this Episode
In 2001, the Norwegian freighter Tampa - crammed with more than 400 asylum-seekers rescued from a sinking fishing boat - was turned away from Australia. Abbas Nazari, aged seven, was onboard.
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