Mark Isaacs

Mark Isaacs

Mark Isaacs is a writer, a community worker, an adventurer, and a campaigner for social justice who became impassioned by the asylum seeker debate after a visit to Villawood Detention Centre while writing for Oxfam.

Months later, in October 2012, Mark was employed by the Salvation Army to work at the Nauru Regional Processing Centre. While in Nauru, Mark established the Recreations program and Oceans program for asylum seekers. He resigned from the Salvation Army in June 2013 and spoke out publicly against the government’s No Advantage policy.

After returning from Nauru, Mark worked at an asylum seeker settlement agency in Sydney. In 2016, he travelled to Afghanistan with the Edmund Rice Centre to report on what happens to asylum seekers returned to Afghanistan by the Australian government.

Mark appeared in Eva Omer’s 2016 documentary Chasing Asylum and has written for Foreign Policy, World Policy Journal, Huffington Post, New Internationalist, Mamamia, New Matilda and VICE.