Friday essay: the Chauka bird and morality on our Manus Island home
- Written by Michelle Nayahamui Rooney, Research Fellow, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
How will our children view this period in Manus in the future?
Michelle Rooney, 2017
The bell rings, school is over. I hear the sea break on the beach. I smell the sea in the wind. I laugh with my schoolmates and jump. Salt water fills my mouth. Chauka calls. I laugh with joy. Like little fish. My brothers and sisters play in the sea.
I catch a...
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