The Irony of Complaining about Boat People
Friday, July 16th, 2010I haven’t been so well lately, but last Monday I did manage to crawl to the screen to watch Q&A on ABC1. I didn’t want to miss WA Green Senator Scott Ludlam.
The arrival of asylum-seekers by boat has dominated the electorate lately and Q&A reflected this. More than half the program was dedicated to the topic.
At one point, I tweeted something I once saw on an Aboriginal mate’s Facebook page. It struck a chord with the #qanda audience. I see that now, at the end of the week, it is still the top tweet (with 70+ retweets) with the #qanda hashtag.
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I like the idea of tweet text being searchable, so here it is …
To my aboriginal mate, the definition of “irony” is one wave of boat people complaining about another. #qanda
10:06 PM Jul 12th via TweetDeck
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