Light the Dark: Perth vigil for Reza Berati and asylum seekers

After a stimulating Perth Writers Festival I joined writers Thomas Keneally, Rosie Scott, Debra Adelaide, Linda Jaivin, David Marr, Antony Loewenstein, and publisher Terri-Ann White at the Perth candlelight vigil for Reza Berati, the young Iranian asylum seeker who was tragically killed on Manus Island.

Debra Adelaide, Rosie Scott, Linda Jaivin and Tom Keneally

It was an understandably emotional event, as I’m sure were the countless other vigils going on around Australia in public places and pr...