Desmond Manderson is a Future Fellow at the Australia National University College of Law/Humanities Research Centre. The author of several books, his work takes an interdisciplinary approach to law and the humanities. In this interview, he speaks about his essay ‘Groundhog Day: why the asylum problem is like the drug problem‘, published in Griffith REVIEW 41: Now We Are Ten, in which he advocates a ‘harm reduction’ approach to asylum seeker policy in Australia.