When Behrouz Boochani first wrote about life on Manus Island for The Saturday Paper in 2016, he described it as an island of the damned. He is now free, after being granted refugee status in New Zealand.

Despite being told he would never step foot in Australia, today Behrouz Boochani joins 7am in the studio to call for a royal commission into Australia’s system of immigration detention.

Behrouz Boochani spent six years detained on Manus Island, a victim of Australia’s Pacific Solution. Last year he was granted refugee status in New Zealand, and since then has used his freedom to advocate on behalf of the hundreds of other asylum seekers detained by Australia. Today, Behrouz Boochani on the refugees we aren’t speaking about, and the reasons why.