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Australia has removed itself from the UN Refugee Convention

class-struggle-anarchism:

Absolutely disgusting. Shameful. 

I was at a talk given by a refugee expert 2 nights ago, and she said it would be tragic if Australia did this, but also highly unlikely. Excising Australia from its own Migration Act is as ludicrous as it sounds. 

Once more, a disgusting policy garners support from both major parties months away from a federal election. I’m so embarrassed by the people that are supposed to be representing me. 

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Although they were working in the name of ‘tolerance and the celebration of diversity and difference’, the artistic elite who created ‘Homosutra’ in the end served only to mask another set of
power relations—those between the western and ‘Oriental subject’, and succeeded, subsequently in marginalising an even more powerless and voiceless group than themselves.

“Dancing with Ga(y)nesh: rethinking cultural appropriation in multicultural Australia”

SELVARAJ VELAYUTHAM & AMANDA WISE, in Postcolonial Studies, vol. 4 no. 2, pp 143-160, 2001.

The Sleaze Ball to raise money for the Mardi Gras Parade in Sydney in 1999 was entitled “Homosutra”. 

Cultural appropriation by one marginalised group of another is the ironic mortar that will hold the bricks of my essay together. It is also quite saddening. 

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