For the past few months, a Facebook ad has repeatedly popped up in my feed, in Bengali. It is a picture of a boat on the ocean, and above it, a map of Australia with a red slash across it, saying ‘No way. Australia will never ever relax its border control laws.’
I came to Australia in 2005 on a student visa, and got married here in 2009. It was a terrible marriage, and after it ended, I was financially, emotionally, and legally crippled. However, the government of Australia and many Australian people, especially my mother in law, helped me . . .