Stoneley had confirmed that none of the various permutations of names Anna had given - Schmidt, Schmitz, Brotmeyer - turned up on the department's database of movements in and out of Australia. Australian officials believed in her to the end.And if the result was cruel, what does that matter?

Anna sounded Australian and knew an awful lot about the country for a backpacker. But the department plodded down the only course it ever chose to pursue: prove the woman German and deport her.In mid-June, the Australian embassy in Berlin was asked to lend a hand. She reported: "The behaviour of Ms Brotmeyer had been becoming increasingly bizarre and her presentation was consistent with a psychotic disorder." The psychologist assessed Rau on 7 October, but was unable to diagnose schizophrenia, declaring instead that she had behavioural problems. She was off again.

He points to poor sleuthing, poor records, poor case management and overwork. Under the department's own rules, prison is only ever to be "a last resort" for immigration detainees, and only used until alternative arrangements can be made. On 14 October, the psychologist reported that medication would be useless, and that Anna should be transferred to a facility such as the Instead, Rau was sent to the Management Unit, known simply as Management, which the Baxter psychologist had specifically warned was not a suitable long-term solution. A psychologist from the Prison Mental Health Service saw no evidence of mental illness and when Anna's behaviour deteriorated further in June, she began to be disciplined by being placed for days at a time in "separate confinement".

PART ONE. He told Kilroy they needed "honest" information.After a month, Immigration sent Anna an application form for German papers. Cornelia was German, of course. The first doctor to examine her at Wacol put this down to her being "a stranger in a strange land". This is not just the story of how the Immigration Department failed a very ill Australian resident, Cornelia Rau.

They lived there for two years, then moved to Asia and once again to Australia in 1983 where they remained. The department must In Anna's case, officers may have had reasonable grounds to suspect she was unlawfully in Australia in the very early days of the saga - though even that is open to question - but they certainly never established she actually was unlawfully in this country. Other staff at Baxter, as well as DIMIA staff in Canberra, were informed of this opinion. The name Cornelia Rau, a German-Australian woman and former Qantas flight attendant, gained attention in 2005 after she escaped a controversial cult called Kenja, only to be held at the Baxter detention centre in South Australia as a suspected illegal immigrant. Anna was soon back in confinement, again for failing to wash. Dr Hannah, due to visit her at this time, was turned away by the prison "for operational reasons". The department's top priority, it seems, was not her health but making sure she didn't do a runner.Prison medical staff were aghast when Anna returned on August 26 with her papers stamped: "Does not fulfil any diagnostic criteria for mental illness." This marked the turning point in her life, the disaster from which all else flowed. No magistrates, no judges. After she would not communicate with DIMIA officials at her induction interview on 8 October, she was again referred to the psychologist, who assessed her again on 12 October.

Isn't this how Australia sends a message to refugees and would-be illegal immigrants across the world: don't try it on?ANNA was flown down from Cairns by Queensland Police Air Wing on April 5 last year and taken to the Brisbane Women's prison.

Nothing came of it. She was extremely distressed.Finally on August 10 a psychiatrist, Dr Dominique Hannah, was called in and after only a few moments with Anna realised something was badly amiss. As Cornelia Rau she had been treated there for about a month in 2002. Giving evidence to a Senate estimates committee earlier this year, the Immigration Minister, Amanda Vanstone and her then department head, Bill Farmer, argued for maximum leeway in the hands of their officers.

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