'The Australian Senate is soon to debate a bill that, if passed, would prevent people who arrive by boat seeking asylum in Australia from ever gaining long-term settlement and protection, and, as a consequence, ultimately rewrite the definition of ‘refugee’ in this country. Allegedly a deterrent to people smugglers and an effort to stop people drowning at sea, the proposal is the product of a policy that attempts to shift the meaning of words in order to violate human rights and international law, gag information, and dehumanise victims.' (Editorial Introduction (Brady-Brown, Annabel and Dzunko, Zoe Lifted Brow, The, No. 33,(3))
'I n the eighties Dani used to date this girl called Vera, and Vera was seeing this guy called Adam. Not like a secret lesbian thing, but like an everyone was sleeping with everyone else kind of thing. Adam was a handsome guy, but he thought a little too highly of himself for not minding that the women he slept with slept with other women. Other than that he was ok. The worst thing about him was that he collected bugs' (Introduction)
'My mother once told me - before my sister died or after? I can't remember - that she believed in ghosts. She believed in ghosts, she said, because when a person dies the energy that animated their body has to go somewhere, and it can't disperse like the ashes do when you throw them to the wind, it can't break up and redistribute itself among the blades of grass, the yellow flecks of acacia wattle sneaking hayfever into eyes and noses, no: it goes bigger, it goes into the earth, the rocks, the rivers.' (Publication abstract)
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things i wanted in the video:
> text
? leaves
! clouds
: a harp or a mandolin
$ the camera to pan down my legs.'
