Published: November 25, 2018
We often apply more humanity to property than we do humans we deem unworthy
Right now there is a meta narrative and obsession that is going over our heads, from Manus Island and Nauru, Don Dale, to the Victorian election platform of demonising African young people, New South Wales forced adoption laws, prison expansion and privatisation in both Victoria and Queensland – whether we know it or not what we are talking about is incarceration.
For a settler nation that began as a penal colony, it is no coincidence that we have an obsession with putting people in prisons. The foundations of this nation are prisons.
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