Many Australians manage to hold the reality of life in Australia’s offshore detention centres at arm’s length, but Iranian theatre director Nazanin Sahamizadeh will bring it home with force when her play Manus makes its Australian Premiere at the Adelaide Festival.

"Dangerous" refugees barred from medical transfer to Australia
Asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru considered to be of “adverse character” will be sent to a reopened Christmas Island facility if they try to come to Australia under new medical evacuation laws.