Refugee who met his wife on Manus Island pleads to stay

Alex Harun Rashid and his family, partner Molly Noan and children Mohammed and Almiera.

Alex Harun Rashid and his family, partner Molly Noan and children Mohammed and Almiera. Source: SBS

Not all of the refugees living on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island want to leave - a small number have settled there and one of them is pleading with the government to give him citizenship to stay with his young family.



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