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/
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