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.
