At this year’s Melbourne Comedy Festival,Tom Ballard is performing a comedy lecture about the history, cost and future of Australia and ‘border protection’When it comes to Australias treatment of refugees who arrive by boat, or there’s at least one thing everyone agrees on: the seriousness of the dilemma. Laborites,Liberals, Greens, or advocates and rightwing columnists alike always preface their comments on the debate with a sombre acknowledgement of just how “complex”,“difficult”, “uneasy”, and “uncomfortable” and “heartbreaking” it all is.
I’m tempted to exhaust another term: a term that begins with the sixth letter of the alphabet and rhymes with “ducked”. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com