Amazon warehouse
wilderness. Suburb
studies. Abandoned
set of futures. Alloyed
young love flight,
motherhood, half-men
built sanctuaries
under the castoff
light of timed
streetlamps, a cigarette
pulled out a crushed
pack on the foyer table
Angela Costi’s poem considers how the stories of newly arrived people can be undermined by legal definitions, how Australia’s migration law is designed to keep them in a state of ‘arrival’.
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While coercive control legislation would mark a monumental shift away from the violence model of abuse, which sensationalises discrete episodes of physical assault, the reality is that the laws are unlikely, in and of themselves, to serve victims’ needs and prevent future harm.
Facebook tried to use Australia as a warning to the rest of the world about what happens when you try to regulate them. Instead, they have shown that they are no longer the friendly social network and will go to great lengths to get their way.
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