#LetThemStay

State Library of Victoria
8 February 2016
LetThemStay rally


I was (and still am) angry enough about the Australian Government's (= Turnbull / Liberal Party) policy on asylum seekers and the Australian Labor Party’s scramble to “me too” the lock-'em-up policy to dig out my First Dog tee shirt and tram it to the State Library for Get Up’s rally.

Old and leftie he may be, but he votes.
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Old farts don’t demos.

They don’t do they?

Old farts and young farts were angry and chanted 'Let them stay'. They (nearly all) vote.

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Old farts have a few advantages, to whit,

• they have fewer years left than they have used and they want to use them well
• they don’t give a shit what people think of them
• they have well-oiled political hypocrisy detectors
• they vote.

Delicious irony: Sir Redmond Barry - of Ned Kelly fame, now immobile in bronze - presides over a protest rally. Like Mr Turnbull, he was significantly outnumbered.
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I cannot – will not – vote for a party that will return the 267 refugees presently in Australia back to Nauru.

I cannot – will not – vote for a party that incarcerates refugees in the hell-holes we pay for on Nauru and Manus Island.
I cannot – will not – vote for a party that institutionalises cruel and inhumane treatment of innocent people.

Not in my name Mr Turnbull; not with my money.