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.
