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Umesh Perinpanayagam

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Umesh Perinpanayagam is a researcher and has previously been a Green Party candidate, office holder and parliamentary staff member.

Four years since their journey on the Andika to New Zealand was thwarted, this family remain stranded in Indonesia with few rights (Photo: Supplied)

Government’s ‘saving lives at sea’ rhetoric rings hollow

What was New Zealand's role in the interception of the Andika, and is the $25 million allocated to preventing asylum-seeker vessels like it really a humanitarian act?

By Umesh Perinpanayagam | 16th June, 2019