should be. "Having gone to PNG, she's not detained by the Commonwealth." Mr Donaghue said the woman had signed a form agreeing to go to PNG for a termination, although this is disputed by her lawyers. Barrister Ron Merkel, QC, told the court the woman had always made it clear she wanted to have her termination in Australia, as she would need specialist care and feared she might be prosecuted if she underwent an abortion in Port Moresby. He said, Australia had assumed responsibility for S99's care when it transferred her to PNG.

Last year, the case of Abyan - a Somali woman also allegedly raped on Nauru - caused national outrage after she begged Australia for an abortion and was flown here after weeks of prevaricating, before beingseen her hat when she first sat down. It was a tangled mess of novelty yarn, with slubs here and there, in an unremarkable blue color. The window pane design provided innumerable open spaces for her long, stringy and noticeably greasy hair to escape. By the looks of it, whole sections of her hair were attempting to make a break for it.

She opened her backpack and brought out more hats. Lots and lots more hats. Actually, lots and lots of the same hat over and over again, each in a slightly different color scheme. Each was individually and lovingly wrapped in a plastic grocery bag. With each one, she waived it in front of me and then put it on her head to model it. A few times,