Goodness gracious, I look back and it's been a semester since I last peppered this little page with my musings. Since I last posted, I've moved out of home and out of a relationship, fallen in love with my degree and steadied my focus on my future. That's as specific as I'll get on all that, so for now I'll just leave you with a few little bits which mean things to me.
"Under the Refugee Convention, which Australia has signed, all people have the right
to seek asylum in Australia.22 They may be found to be genuine refugees, and they
may not – but seeking asylum is not illegal under Australian law or international law.
The term ʻillegal immigrantʼ, just like the term ʻqueue jumperʼ, is designed to make
asylum seekers seem alien and unworthy of sympathy."
- GetUp! factsheet... full sheet can be found here.
"She said it over and again before the line went dead. And that is what they were all saying down their phones, from the hijacked planes and the burning towers. There is only love, and then oblivion. Love was all they had to set against the hatred of their murderers."
- Ian McEwan, after September 11, here.
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to the pure wind"
- George Orwell, most famously seen at the beginning of this WikiLeaks video.
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