Outtakes From Manus Island

Outtakes From Manus Island
Reporting, and over-reporting, is always valuable in one way or another — and just this morning, some of the asylum seekers inside were telling us
that Papua New Guinea authorities were in the camp and trying to force them to move.
______ When the Papua New Guinea immigration officers knocked on our hotel door and asked for our passports, I knew
that Adam Ferguson, an Australian photojournalist for The Times, and I were no longer welcome on Manus Island.
______ • Lisa Pryor writes that Australia’s refugee policy "is to Australians what gun policy is to Americans, our unshakable madness." • Frank Bruni tells our own Tacey Rychter
that toxic masculinity has slowed Australia’s march to same-sex marriage.
Damien Cave is the new Australia bureau chief for The New York Times.
Australia lost two important cultural figures, memorialized in New York Times obituaries: AC/DC’s Malcolm Young;
and Shannon Michael Cane, a book aficionado who took New York by storm.
There were locals helping the asylum seekers as well, whom I could not identify
for fear they would be targeted by Papua New Guinea or Australian authorities.