What's it like to flee your homeland? A 'refugee camp' in Sydney shows you

Common sense goes out the window, as I quickly calculate my list: husband, passport, family photos, medications, mobile phone and charger.Outside, a towering figure awaits. He stands in front of a metal fence — the sole passage to safety.None of us speak his language but, instinctively, we form a line and offer up our possessions.The lucky ones pass through the border crossing, the others are sent to the back.

Hundreds of visitors take the tour each year. The majority are school students, health professionals, and people who work with refugees. "To me, it's a sign of resilience, that experience, but people were worried about how they would be treated."She was born in Sierra Leone, but moved with her family to Australia for her father's university study.

"Me and my friends went to the state opera house ," she recalls. " was an amazing performance of the Nutcracker. But as an Iraqi-born guide named Kathreen tells our group, people without proper identification or money to pay for translators can spend years waiting to be processed.On the tour with the primary school kids, a Sri Lankan guide named Neeraja shows us what a pit toilet looks like.All of our noses wrinkle on cue.Neeraja, who herself lived in an Indian refugee camp, explains that malaria and diarrhoeal diseases often spread from shared toilets.

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