This week on the Five Minute Advocate, Julie Macken dissects the reasoning behind Australia’s fearful perspective of those arriving to our shores by boat and our nation’s widespread support of their inhumane treatment.

Julie argues our history of violent colonialism and denial of that history in pursuit of Howard’s “relaxed and comfortable Australia” has curated a culture of melancholia across the nation; the only way out being truth telling.

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