Lunch with lawyer and asylum seeker advocate Shen Narayanasamy

By Mark Dapin
Updated April 29 2016 - 8:23pm, first published 7:42pm
Refugee advocate Shen Narayanasamy. Photo: Pat Scala
Refugee advocate Shen Narayanasamy. Photo: Pat Scala
Shen Narayanasamy. Photo: Eddie Jim
Shen Narayanasamy. Photo: Eddie Jim

Last year, when Shen Narayanasamy became the public face of the push to persuade investors to withdraw their money from immigration-detention-centre contractor Transfield Services, she was described in the press as a "Melbourne mum". But 34-year-old Narayanasamy, a founder of No Business in Abuse (NBIA) and the more recent Let Them Stay campaign, has been fighting political battles since 1998, when she helped organise a high-school walkout against Pauline Hanson.