Blind Conscience

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Winner of the 2009 Australian Human Rights Commission Literature Non-Fiction Award
On the 'long list' for the inaugural John Button Prize for Australian politics and social policy
This profoundly moving book reveals the untold story of the people who struggled to get asylum seekers out of detention and change government policy. Lateline journalist Margot O'Neill, who covered many of these stories while they were happening, paints a compelling and heartbreaking picture through an extraordinary cast of characters. Some, like Petro Georgiou, Julian Burnside and Phillip Ruddock, are very well-known. Others are not famous but simply felt compelled to follow their consciences and act to help desperate people in desperate situations, often to the detriment of their personal well-being.

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Winner of the 2009 Australian Human Rights Commission Literature Non-Fiction Award

On the 'long list' for the inaugural John Button Prize for Australian politics and social policy

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Margot O'Neill is a senior reporter with ABC TV's Lateline program, and has worked on a variety of programs including Four Corners. She has been a television, radio and newspaper journalist in Australia and overseas for 25 years. O'Neill won two Walkley Awards, the United Nations of Australia Media Peace Award, the national Human Rights Award for Television, and has been nominated for three Logie Awards. She reported extensively on issues surrounding immigration detention and in 2005, with the Lateline team, won awards for a program on Vivian Solon, an Australian citizen wrongfully deported to the Philippines.