On several occasions, she disappeared for a few days, and sometimes she travelled overseas, but she had always returned or made contact with her family, usually with her sister, Christine Rau.On 17 March 2004, Rau discharged herself from Manly Hospital and disappeared. NETFLIX - En 2005, l’Australie découvre l’histoire de Cornélia Rau, une Australienne enfermée 10 mois dans un camp de migrants. But within days something happened that would shape this story from beginning to end: she lost her new passport issued at the German consulate in Woollahra a few weeks earlier.
Documents provided to the Palmer inquiry by the Queensland Government record that Anna was "teary and feeling sad because she had been in the detention unit for so long".
In these months of absolute inaction, Anna's behaviour deteriorated dramatically.Prisons everywhere face the problem of distinguishing bad behaviour from mental collapse.
It was their first face-to-face meeting since May. Diplomatic efforts to identify Anna would drag on into August. 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". Palmer is scathing about the failure to get her out of there, to review her case, to think afresh. 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.
She paced; she stared; she hoarded food; her moods swung about; she wouldn't wash.Was she to be treated or disciplined? She reported: "The behaviour of Ms Brotmeyer had been becoming increasingly bizarre and her presentation was consistent with a psychotic disorder."
The following day, Manly Hospital reported Rau to the On 29 March 2004 Rau arrived at the Hann River Roadhouse in On 2 April, Rau was visited by Iris Indorato, the honorary While in prison, Rau was met by Debbie Kilroy, who ran an organisation called Sisters Inside, to support women in prison. Cornelia was German, of course. According to Kilroy, Stoneley explained that Anna would be held "until she gives better information on her identity". Cornelia Rau is a German citizen and Australian permanent resident who was unlawfully detained for a period of ten months in 2004 and 2005 as part of the Australian Government's mandatory detention program.. It was a couple of days before Ben Stoneley, the compliance officer responsible for liaising with detainees in prison, went out to Wacol to visit Anna. In Palmer's words: "She repeats her story but provides insufficient details to allow for the issuing of a German passport.
She thought she might be 25. He points to poor sleuthing, poor records, poor case management and overwork. On several occasions, Rau asked Kilroy to contact DIMIA for her, to ask when she would be released from prison, since she "had done nothing wrong"On 29 April, a DIMIA officer contacted the Missing Persons Unit of the Queensland Police, and sent them the information they had collected about Anna. The Germans had already dismissed the shabby biography Anna presented up in Cairns. Senator Vanstone tabled the report in In May 2008, Rau was cleared to travel by a psychiatrist in Adelaide, but was subsequently "held in isolation at a Hamburg hospital" in a closed ward for 7 weeks until late October 2008.Rau was arrested while behaving erratically in the city of Instead, it was decided to transfer Anna to Baxter detention centre in South Australia - not an imminent deportee now, but a long stayer.Anna was once again in the punishment cells when her case officer, Stoneley, arrived on September 30. She recommended Anna be taken to hospital for assessment.Ten days later Anna found herself - once again - at Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital.