After the Port Hedland riots Ruddock commented that he wasn’t sure “that the policy of detention should be reviewed because detainees aren’t prepared to observe normal standards of behaviour that we would expect in the Australian community.”

As I later said in my book, Morteza wasn’t living in part of the Australian community.

Actually, if I was stuck in one of those detention hell holes, my normal standard of behaviour would be to riot at every possible opportunity.