Australia's rapidly degenerating relationship to asylum seekers
does not begin with the current government,
nor the one just prior,
nor the ones prior to that.
It does not begin with the Stolen Generation
nor the White Australia policy
It does not begin with European settlement and colonisation of this land
nor with the British Empire
nor with feuding Aboriginal nations
It does not begin strictly with autopoietic human folly
nor with Divine improvidence.
Let me not be myopic.
Degeneration comes in forgetting
that there are futures
we once knew how to dream
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