Australia: Island of Refuge #3
Previously: Mr Fraser answered Question Seven out of seventeen questions and qualified the assertion that Australia maintains the right to select who comes here –...
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Australia: Island of Refuge #2
Previously: I ask Mr Fraser, ‘How did you know that it was good and right for people of different races to come to Australia in the 1970s when Australia was predominantly...
Australia: Island of Refuge #1
An Unexpected Opportunity ‘Is your book going to be very boring?’ She is half my age and she has asked me this without malice or humour, as if it were the only logical...
Australia: Island of Refuge, Prologue Part 2
THE RIGHT TO WORK Since 2010, I have been teaching part time at a vocational college called TAFE in Port Adelaide. My students are referred to TAFE via job agencies. The...
Australia: Island of Refuge Prologue Part 1
Prologue Part 1 BEAUTIFUL WEEDS The dirt patch behind my letterbox has been transformed into a carpet of yellow. It is the kind of yellow that makes me happy to be alive and I...