Highlights from Guardian workshop and panel on asylum at the 2016 Festival of Dangerous Ideas, hosted by David Marr

Shukufa Tahiri was born into a Hazara family in Afghanistan. Her father came to Australia in a boat seeking asylum and later she and the rest of her family were resettled

One of 14 athletes from Sierra Leone who absconded during the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne says he is proud to be Australian

Broadcaster owes his life to a man who risked everything to help Murray and his family escape into Austria in 1956 as Soviet forces crushed an uprising in his native Hungary

‘It was a dream for my father to see one of his kids graduate with a university degree’

The Nguyen family

In the latest in Guardian Australia’s series on refugees, Saba Vasefi – a feminist, academic, human rights campaigner, film-maker and poet – tells her story, and that of her daughter, an accomplished cellist.

Scovia Anzoa and Akoor Dhelbai, who came to Australia on humanitarian visas talk about their passion for playing Aussie Rules

Ordered to amputate the limbs of deserters from the Iraqi army or be shot, Dr Munjed Al Muderis hid and fled. In the latest film in the Guardian’s series on refugees in Australia, he tells his astonishing story: how he went on to Christmas Island, spent 10 months in a detention centre and now carries out pioneering reconstructive surgery in Sydney, inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator. ‘I was born very comfortably, I had a silver spoon in my mouth … I never expected that I would end up in a boat coming to Australia’