When John Minns asked me to help launch No Friend But The Mountains in Canberra I was honoured, because I was aware of Behrouz Boochani’s journalistic work in The Saturday Paper. Now that I have read the book I am humiliated. This work is a searing judgement on the nation of Australia. It strips away our self- righteous claims to humanity and exposes our pretensions and hypocrisy. (Paul Bongiorno, Pearls and Irritations, October 2, 2018). Read more …