The media has packed up from the hotel where Novak Djokovic was detained in Australia, but after the tennis player’s deportation, more than 30 asylum seekers are still at the Park Hotel in the middle of Melbourne. The Australian Open brought the men’s years of indefinite immigration detention into the spotlight. We look at two stories from the Park Hotel: one man deported from Australia, another still there.

In this episode: 
Jamal, asylum seeker at the Park Hotel
Allison Battisson, founder and director, Human Rights for All (@HumanRights4A)
Kate Walton, writer for Al Jazeera(@waltonkate)

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The media has packed up from the hotel where Novak Djokovic was detained in Australia, but after the tennis player&rsquo;s deportation, more than 30 asylum seekers are still at the Park Hotel in the middle of Melbourne. The Australian Open brought the men&rsquo;s years of indefinite immigration detention into the spotlight. We look at two stories from the Park Hotel: one man deported from Australia, another still there.
In this episode:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li>Jamal, asylum seeker at the Park Hotel</li>
<li>Allison Battisson, founder and director, Human Rights for All (<a href="https://twitter.com/HumanRights4A">@HumanRights4A</a>)</li>
<li>Kate Walton, writer for Al Jazeera (<a href="https://twitter.com/waltonkate">@waltonkate</a>)</li>
</ul>
Connect with The Take:&nbsp;
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The Take is a daily interview-driven international news podcast hosted by award-winning journalist Malika Bilal. Each episode focuses on conversations with journalists and people directly impacted by the news of the day, offering our listeners the context necessary to understand what's in the headlines.
With millions of global listens, it's clear the conversations we're having on The Take are worth hearing. And critics think so too. The show has won the Online Journalism Awards, the Signal Awards, Lovie Awards, and Anthem Awards, among others.

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