Tuesday, 9th of December, 2003

As usual forgetting to use this blog as a forum for Stuff Wot I’m Doing. This time it’s not so much self-promotion as promotion of an important issue; this Saturday from about 10:30 I shall be incarcerated in a cage down at Bondi Pavillion for an hour or so as part of the Daybreak in Detention event being organised by A Just Australia for Refugees and Amnesty International. In the cage with me, apparently, will be Senator Aden Ridgeway of the Australian Democrats, who probably get my second vote after the Greens, although I will certainly be pleased if Mark Latham’s ALP can oust Johnny Howard’s regime.

Whether conversation will ensue “inside”, I don’t know, but if this symbolic gesture can have any effect on the fate of the many refugees incarcerated for mind-boggling lengths of time under appalling situations, that can only be a good thing, and I’m proud to play a small part in it.

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