I have nothing to add to what is already an over-politicised phenomena, which is the manifestation of people seeking asylum in Australia arriving by boat.
Except that xenophobia is a product of distance. Distance is, I have been arguing, the political mechanism through which people are turned against one another. Distance is created, and twisted to serve political ends.
Art collapses this distance. In Australia, I think, it mostly fails, but I would like to be proven wrong in the future.
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