Comments on: Welcome to Australia

By: Piglet in Portugal

Piglet in Portugal — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:52:47 +0000

I truly hope this proves to be succuessful and better to do something to promote change than nothing.

By: Team Oyeniyi

Team Oyeniyi — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:46:44 +0000

We are trying to change the conversation. All we can hope is that reach enough people to encourage our politicians to adopt a more humane approach.

By: Piglet in Portugal

Piglet in Portugal — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:44:16 +0000

The intentions are there but it will be interesting to see what happens in practice

By: Team Oyeniyi

Team Oyeniyi — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:40:43 +0000

Thanks, Jan – not sure it would help in Holland, although I am sure you could adapt the concept for local conditions! This is really about speaking to our politicians and getting them to rethink their strategies, because the only strategies they seem to agree on are rather barbaric for a supposedly civilised country to adopt.

There is great fear we will be over run by refugees and why should WE, so special as we are, have to “let in” people we really don’t know and who don’t look like SOME of us. As we are a pretty diverse mix of cultural backgrounds here (250 languages spoken in Australia), they are also bound to look like some of us!

By: Jan Bierens (@JanBierens)

Jan Bierens (@JanBierens) — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:10:56 +0000

I like the whole idea of it. Great initiative. I could d/l the poster and put it in my kitchen window here in Holland, but if that would help?