My five year old, who knows nothing of politics, asked me while walking home today, "Can people walk from one country to another?" I was briefly robbed of speech. "Mummy? Did you hear me?" Yes, sweetheart. I heard you. I just had to choose which truth to tell you.
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That I *could* choose is a function of privilege. I opted not to tell my five year old about children his age being ripped from their parents and put in cages in the country we're moving to, because I don't want him to be afraid it might happen to him.
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Instead, I told him that yes, people can walk between countries, but not in Australia, because the whole country is an island. He promptly set about deciding how people could come and go in boats - and then became very concerned about poisonous sea-creatures posing a danger.
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Calling Dutton a poisonous sea-creature is an insult to poisonous sea-creatures.
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