PEN Melbourne’s Arnold Zable examines recent events concerning refugees detained on Christmas Island, the notion of the ‘worthy’ and ‘unworthy’ asylum seekers and how we might better respond to those who escape untenable conditions in their own countries.
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People say that (writers) are pretty powerless: we don’t have an army, we don’t have a bureaucracy. But if that were true, then why would writers be arrested?... Because the spoken word is powerful.
