not the motorcycle diaries

Fuck fucking fucking fuck.

I’m having an interesting time trawling virtual and dusty papers from that fun period of 2002 - 2006 when immigration detention activism was all the rage. Do any readers know of/have any critiques from that time (within loosely ‘anti-detention’ activism/debates) regarding the work of groups like ChilOut and the Circles of Friends?

PS Go, go, go RTBU!

1519: map of Brazil issued by Portuguese explorers.

30 May 2008: “Members of an unknown Amazon Basin tribe and their dwellings are seen during a flight over the Brazilian state of Acre along the border with Peru.” (Sydney Morning Herald).*

* (29 May 2008: “Funai fotografa índios isolados na fronteira do Brasil com o Peru” (National Indigenous Peoples Foundation, the government agency for “protection and education of indigenous peoples”).)

Is this for real? I’m sure I’ve got a drunkenly written film script sitting around somewhere that involves Mal Brough being presented, via Keith Windschuttle, with a medal from a society of the same name.

I couldn’t have scripted for this, though, so it must be true.  See you all outside COAG next month.

Images on the front cover of Managing the Border: Immigration Compliance, DIMIA 2004-5:

1. Part of Harvey’s Isles, Queensland, 1802
2. Cape Jervis looking from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, 1802
3. Entrance of Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, 1802
4. North side of Cape Bowen, Queensland, 1802
5. Cape Schanck, Victoria, 1802

“William Westall was born in Hertford, England on 20 October 1781. In 1801 he was chosen by Sir Joseph Banks as the artist aboard Matthew Flinders’ Investigator expedition to explore the coastline of New Holland. His works chart the progress of Flinders’ circumnavigation of Australia from King George’s Sound in Western Australia, across the Great Australian Bight and on to Port Jackson and the Gulf of Carpentaria. He is best remembered as the first professional artist to depict the Australian landscape as well as Aboriginal Art. His works, 160 of which are held by the National Library of Australia, are considered of a very high standard. William Westall died in 1850, aged 68, while working on a painting of his shipwreck experience on the Porpoise.”

Catholic yoof: apparently not as worthy of special treatment as some. Sans-papiers in France, for example.