Ten years since Tampa

This week marks 10 years since the Tampa asylum-seeker crisis which triggered the Pacific Solution.

10 years ago this week, the cargo ship MV Tampa picked up more than 400 asylum seekers near Christmas island.

That action triggered an armed standoff, a diplomatic crisis, and the so-called Pacific Solution.

Despite the government's attempts to keep them out, many eventually re-settled.

Mohammad Ali Amiri was one of the refugees on-board the vessel. He spent three long years in the detention camp on Nauru before New Zealand agreed to take him in.

A decade on from the incident he's returned to Australia to tell his story.

Watch a special SBS Insight forum on the Tampa 10 year anniversary on Tuesday 23 August @ SBS One 7:30pm.