鈥淭hank you for these protests. We love you and our hearts are with you in this moment.鈥
This message was sent from a refugee inside Northam Detention Centre in West Australia to activists who were protesting outside in 2014.
Messages like this inspire many of us to get active and persist with campaigns to make the world more humane.
A whole generation, to which I belong, has only known mandatory detention: it was introduced by 鈥渓eft鈥 Labor immigration minister Gerry Hand in 1992.