Chasing Asylum

My name is Martin Appleby, I appear in Eva's Doco on people Chasing Asylum, what I find the most disturbing, isn't the fact of what I witnessed, what I was order to do on behalf of the Australian Government.

But the fact the derogatory comments posted about this factually correct Doco, the insinuating comments of being one sided, the fact that the Australian Government, would not comment, and wished to ban this Doco, shows how the Gov( paid) commentators go out of their way to discredit all that it does not agree with!

And yes, I refused to shake Morrison's hand, when on the HMAS Choules.

This film shows first-hand the conditions and treatment of people, including children, being kept in indefinite detention for doing nothing wrong or illegal. All refugees have the right to seek asylum in any signatory country to the 1951 Convention on Refugees, yet Australia breaks the law, and denies these people their human rights, purely to set an "example" to others who might want to try to come to Australia by sea.

Journalists are banned from these detention camps, and seeing this film, you know why! When people see how these refugees are being abused, they will feel sickened and furious. This film is not melodramatic, or biased: it presents what is happening clearly and honestly, and shows the depths that governments will go to to try to win votes.

Anyone who thinks they are a human being should see this film!

Incredibly manipulative. Depressing. I couldn't finish it, it was that bad.

Terrible documentary film making. One sided and culturally disgraceful towards Pacific Islanders.

I'm speechless trying to write this review. If you're an Australian, actually, if you're a human being, this is a must watch. It's difficult. My heart is literally breaking right now. We need another humanitarian like Malcolm Fraser to rise and make this horrible situation right.