The night Reza Barati died at Australia’s offshore detention centre on Manus Island, hip-hop artist Urthboy was already writing a song about Australia’s hard-line asylum seeker policy.

”[It] started with me getting my head around how we were using our navy to push back asylum seekers,” he says. ”A week after I had written it, the riot and the death occurred and it felt like this was almost predictable. The consequence of offshore detention gave the song a sense of purpose.”

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