Freeing AliIn April this year, Michael Gordon was the first journalist to gain unrestricted access to the refugee detention centre on Nauru. There, he interviewed more than half of the 54 asylum seekers then on the island. His articles, based on these interviews, for The Age and SMH drew an enormous response from readers. Freeing Ali expands beyond that article to tell the story of Ali Mullaie, an Afghan asylum seeker who spent three and a half years detained on