The Good Sea
The Journey of the Tasi Diak and the Politics of Refugee Protection in Australia
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
12 May 2026
Summary
First, I thought the boat was going to split in two and sink. Some of us could not swim. We were all going to die if the boat sank. But I thought, ‘Oh well, we have made it this far; if we die, we will be considered heroes, there will be flowers in the sea.’
In May 1995, after five days and six nights on the Timor Sea, eighteen East Timorese asylum seekers, including a six-month-old baby, sailed into Darwin in a small wooden fishing boat. The Tasi Diak was the only b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522881677 |
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| ISBN-10: | 052288167X |
| Author: | Vannessa Hearman |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 234mm |
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About The Author
Vannessa Hearman
Vannessa Hearman is a historian of Southeast Asia specialising in political violence, human rights, and historical memory in Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Born in Indonesia and based at Curtin University in Western Australia, she is the author of the critically acclaimed Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia.
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