After four years in immigration detention, Masoud was granted a temporary visa. Then he was hit with a $264,000 bill for his "accommodation" in Baxter Detention Centre. There are hundreds more like him - experiencing unimaginable trauma only to then be slugged with an enormous bill for the privilege.

Thanks to the efforts of many caring Australians the bill to abolish detention debt was passed recently in the Senate - meaning that refugees like Masoud will no longer be have a massive debt arising from their time in detention.

The Sydney Morning Herald covered the the Bill's passage through the Senate at http://is.gd/3eL2n.