From Galus Australis, in October 2009…
I saw the film last night but this is not District 9.
I write this in Johannesburg, out of touch with the latest “boat’ people crisis” back in
Australia, but nonetheless very concerned. Despite the distance it seems to me that we
cannot see the wood for the trees.
‘Unlawful arrivals’, ‘illegal refugees’, the order to not call detainees by name, and numerous
other documented abuses, the lies of the faked Children Overboard scandal, the housing of
children in jails, the Cornelia Rau scandal – all were part of a deliberate attempt to separate
people in desperation from other human beings…..
