Islands of the damned

By Deborah Snow
August 18 2012 - 3:00am
No paradise ... Nauru awaits boat arrivals.
No paradise ... Nauru awaits boat arrivals.
Run down … RAAF engineers with the ADF reconnaissance mission.
Run down … RAAF engineers with the ADF reconnaissance mission.

Father Paul Lonot Sireh calls himself a proud ''Manusian'' - a native of Manus Island, that small drop of land in Papua New Guinea's northern waters pushed to centre stage this week by the expert panel on asylum seekers led by one-time defence chief Angus Houston.

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