Erik Lloga

[1] In Melbourne, Lloga was chairman of the North Carlton based Albania-Australia Community Association who was involved in temporarily resettling Kosovo Albanian refugees.

[7][8][9] He served as the personal interpreter for Australian prime minister John Howard during Operation Safe Haven and was an advisor to the Federal Government.

[10][11] The refugees did a hunger strike and Lloga attempted to dissuade them from continuing and was sympathetic to their cause to delaying their return as there were vulnerable people at risk of death if back in their homeland.

[14] In Kosovo, Lloga took the refugees to local police stations and through his funds fed some of them, as Australian authorities provided no money to aid their return.

[14] He did many radio interviews in a period of a week from Pristina describing how the Australian government left the refugees without assistance and in conditions of having to fend for themselves and a destitute state.

[14] A week later, Rehame media monitoring service reported that Lloga's radio interview's had influenced caller opinion resulting in a "massive swing" against the Australian government's refugee repatriations.