There has never been a dictatorship
where a country has an unshackled
press and freedom of expression
So why do I feel unnerved
when our Government raids the ABC
When it is trying to legislate a—
—gainst people protesting
When it exposes whistle blowers and
has a person in secret detention
on undisclosed charges
When it locks asylum seekers on
prison islands
and proudly breaks human rights to do so
Documentaries about tyranny
are critiques, not
tutorials
But there are creeping signs of history
repeating
Friends shifted a piano six
feet across a stage before anyone noticed
Nudged it a few centimetres each week
I feel unnerved
about where our incremental
changes are taking us
