Human Rights Overboard: Seeking Asylum in AustraliaIn 2005, in the wake of the Cornelia Rau scandal, a citizen's inquiry was established to bear witness to events in Australian immigration detention facilities. Until then, the federal government had refused to conduct a broad ranging investigation into immigration detention in Australia, and the operations within detention centres had been largely shrouded in official secrecy. The People's Inquiry into Detention (as it came to be called) heard