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ENDNOTES 1. The Australian Photo Journalist recently published a special issue on the topic of food, where the disparity between the poor, starving people of this Earth was starkly contrasted with the overindulgence and gluttony of those (often in the West) who have too much. The statistics were frightening; one billion people are dying from starvation from malnutrition and another billion are struggling with excess weight or obesity. See the Australian Photo Journalist, special issue Inedible Truth: The Politics of Food, ed. David Lloyd and Angela Blakely (Brisbane: Griffith University, 2014). 2. See Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor exhibition catalogue (Brisbane, artisan: 2012). 3. Philip Williams, “UN Torture Committee Criticises Australia’s Mandatory Detention Policy for Asylum Seekers,” ABC News, 29 November 2014, http://www. abc.net.au/news/2014-11-29/un-torture-commiteecriticises-australias-asylum-seeker-policy/5927542. 4. “Our Campaign for Refugees and Asylum Seekers,” Amnesty International, http://www.amnesty.org.au/ refugees/comments/24019/. 5. See http://www.commonwealth-exchange.org/howto-solve-a-problem-like-a-visa/. 6. Rosie Lewis, “Report Urges UK Visa Freedom,” Australian 4 November 2014, http://www.theaustralian. com.au/national-affairs/immigration/report-urges-ukvisa-freedom/story-fn9hm1gu-1227111403931. 7. Ibid. 8. “London Rolls Out Welcome Mat to Aussies, With Plans to Make Living and Working in UK Easier,” 5 November 2014, http://www.news.com.au/travel/ travel-updates/london-rolls-out-welcome-mat-toaussies-with-plans-to-make-living-and-working-in- uk-easier/story-e6frfq80-1227113120861. This article concludes with a quote from Australian Immigration Minister Scott Morrison, who says “We have welcomed migrants from Great Britain for more than two centuries and we intend to continue to do so.” The innocuousness of this statement belies such a cruel and savage history that the mind balks. 9. Ibid. 10. Boris Johnson, cited in ibid. 11. A fact recently demonstrated by the overwhelming coverage of the ‘Sydney Siege’—given 24 hour news coverage in Britain, South Africa, and other Commonwealth countries, while news of a Pakistani slaughter of 132 children barely touched the surface (not to mention a horrific story of 43 Mexican students who were brutally killed for peacefully protesting— this story was given the briefest attention locally). See “Pakistan Mourns after Taliban Peshawar School Massacre,” BBC News, 17 December 2014, http:// www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30507836; “Mexico Horrified by Suspected Massacre of 43 Students,” Sydney Morning Herald, 9 November 2104, http:// www.smh.com.au/world/mexico-horrified-bysuspected-massacre-of-43-students-2014110911jbvt.html. 12. Interested people in Brisbane could look up the Brisbane Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support Network to look for ways to help: http://www. brassnetwork.org/brisbane-players/ BEEP BEEP BEEP