- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Map of Avon Valley
- Introduction: Blood & Salt
- Chapter 1 Herewith the (Auto) <i>Razó</i>: Activism and the Poet
- Chapter 2 Standing Up to Aggressors
- Chapter 3 Why I Am a Pacifist
- Chapter 4 Plagues & Bioethics
- Chapter 5 Refugees & Australia
- Chapter 6 Wheatbelt Isohalines & the Making of Isopleths: The ‘Annihilation of Distance’ & Other Subtexts Associated with the Creation of a Sequence of Poems
- Chapter 7 Half-Masts: A Prosody of Telecommunications
- Chapter 8 Geodysplasia: Geographical Abnormalities & Anomalies of an Activist Poetics
- Chapter 9 Activist Readings of Three Australian Poems
- Chapter 10 Working with Coral Hull on <i>Zoo</i> (A Collaboration)
- Chapter 11 De-mapping & Reconnoitring Notions of Boundaries – Mutually Said: Blogging & Acting
- Chapter 12 Poetry, Justice & the Court
- Chapter 13 The School of Environmental Poetics & Creativity
- Coda: Visitors
- Appendix 1 On Anarchism: Tracy Ryan Interviews John Kinsella
- Appendix 2 Dialogue on Vegan Ethics: John Kinsella & Tracy Ryan
- References
- Index
Refugees & Australia
Refugees & Australia
- Chapter:
- (p.40) Chapter 5 Refugees & Australia
- Source:
- Activist Poetics
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter presents Kinsella's views about the Australia's campaign against refugee ‘incursion’. He believes that most Australians, including himself, are complicit in this outrage — maybe even those campaigning for or advocating refugee rights. He argues that, as in other Western democracies, the rights of the majority are used to deny or minimise the rights of minorities, and that this is a false democracy, in which rights are displaced and disguised under euphemistic terminologies.
Keywords: John Kinsella, refugees rights, Australia, minorities, human rights, false democracy
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Map of Avon Valley
- Introduction: Blood & Salt
- Chapter 1 Herewith the (Auto) <i>Razó</i>: Activism and the Poet
- Chapter 2 Standing Up to Aggressors
- Chapter 3 Why I Am a Pacifist
- Chapter 4 Plagues & Bioethics
- Chapter 5 Refugees & Australia
- Chapter 6 Wheatbelt Isohalines & the Making of Isopleths: The ‘Annihilation of Distance’ & Other Subtexts Associated with the Creation of a Sequence of Poems
- Chapter 7 Half-Masts: A Prosody of Telecommunications
- Chapter 8 Geodysplasia: Geographical Abnormalities & Anomalies of an Activist Poetics
- Chapter 9 Activist Readings of Three Australian Poems
- Chapter 10 Working with Coral Hull on <i>Zoo</i> (A Collaboration)
- Chapter 11 De-mapping & Reconnoitring Notions of Boundaries – Mutually Said: Blogging & Acting
- Chapter 12 Poetry, Justice & the Court
- Chapter 13 The School of Environmental Poetics & Creativity
- Coda: Visitors
- Appendix 1 On Anarchism: Tracy Ryan Interviews John Kinsella
- Appendix 2 Dialogue on Vegan Ethics: John Kinsella & Tracy Ryan
- References
- Index