"Over the past 10 years, Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers and refugees has become even worse. With no hope of policy change in sight, and with the situation unraveling out of control on both Nauru and Manus Island, it is time to ask ourselves how we got here and how we begin the long journey out of this political, ethical, legal and humanitarian quagmire." - Julie Macken, The New Matilda Today journalist and Australian Women in Support of Women on Nauru's campaigner Julie Macken's groundbreaking piece calling for the settlement of asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus Island in Australia was published in the New Matilda. You can read it here: https://newmatilda.com/2016/01/12/the-long-journey-to-nauru/