WARNING - Rare excursion into politics!
WARNING - Rare excursion into politics! "The Federal Government Welcomes Refugees" (Barbed wire security fence at a factory - and nothing to do with refugees. See below.) WPP2015-Wk-37-Metal Weekly Photo Project 2015 curated by Alen Ianni , Bernhard Rembold , Cliff Loresco , Francesco Scaglioni , Heather D , Ken Fowkes , Navin Upendran , Robyn King and T.E. Smith #WPP2015 #WPP2015-Wk-37-Metal Photo taken outside my office, which borders the factory of a formerly iconic Western Australian solar hot water system manufacturer. And now for the politics. Successive waves of Australian Federal Governments - of both major parties - have taken to demonizing refugees not sourced from UNHCR camps. As the policies have gotten more extreme, offshore (think Gitmo-like) 'processing camps' have been set up to house those that do make it through the gauntlet of naval vessels that tow them back to Indonesian waters. In the camps they are subject to institutional abuse, physical and...