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Work is okay; I have things to do, I’m just not enjoying them. I'm kind of bored out of my brain, actually.
Also, the woman who’s giving me work is...not very thorough about it. She’ll assign something to me, but doesn’t generally give me the background. So I end up having to hunt and fish it out for myself. Which is kind of painful. Or else she sits with me and goes through it. Which I don't need.
The trouble-ticket functionality for this place is really really weird. Incidents lead to investigations which lead to changes, but you can link and cross-link any incident with any investigation with any change and it just becomes a tangled mess of "we don't know where this issue came from, but here's the paper trail" *five hours later* "oh, it's just one change, and they noted that you had to do that one change just here"...
And then, while I might end up back at the other work (the one I’ve been at for the first half the year), the transport system that leads there is about to go balls-up. They're closing a major line that probably moves around 10,000 people to their destination on a regular weekday. And all those people? Are gonna get on buses which will travel on a two-lanes-each-way arterial road, detouring to stop at all the stations...
It’s gonna be transport hell.
I’m desperately hoping that it might induce fewer people to vote for the conservatives next election, but not freaking likely. We are the electorates of the car and the careless – frankly, we’re the electorates of The Best Nazis (the kind of people who prioritise being civil and polite and ‘this is the way that we’ve always done it in Australia’ over doing right by a greater number of Australians).
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Also: on behalf of my asshole country and our asshole lazy fuckers, I'm sorry we gave Dump the idea about unending detention. Because Nauru and our "Pacific solution" is where it came from and we've been doing this fuckery for five years.
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Hey, my fellow Aussies? I'm 'starting' a postcard campaign I should have done two years ago. One postcard a week to my MP (LNP), just with #KidsOffNauru on it. And encouraging others to send one postcard a week, too. A postcard stamp should be ~$0.80, and if people are really cheap about it, then hell, I'll pay for the stamp.
Our local MP supports the Nauru camps. I emailed him a year ago, and he replied with the typical "they're being coached into being 'crisis actors' and that they could go back to Indonesia or another country along the way", and that the media is lying to us about the situation on Nauru. (Funnily enough, all the FB accounts I've found that claim they're on Nauru and EVERYTHING IS FINE only update their FB profile, are all interconnected, and work for lots of companies that have only ever employed them...)
I don't know how many of my RL friends will join in on the postcard sending. Hockey don't talk politics, quilting do and we're all left-leaning so the probability is much higher that they'll get involved. Church does and doesn't talk politics, although they've largely been ghosting along on the "ohnoes not social justice; spiritual justice only here kthxbai" line that white Amerivangelicals are starting to take HARDLINE (like, if you care about social justice then you don't care about the Kingdom of God, like it's a binary proposition and not a sliding scale). But several people in the church work with refugees, so maybe...maybe...
Speaking up, though? Even making the suggestion? That's the hard part. And I'm non-white to start with, but I get to do the work, because when they decide that there'll be a second-class Australia, I'll be included in it eventually. Maybe one of the higher 'classes' but still no longer equal.
Also, the woman who’s giving me work is...not very thorough about it. She’ll assign something to me, but doesn’t generally give me the background. So I end up having to hunt and fish it out for myself. Which is kind of painful. Or else she sits with me and goes through it. Which I don't need.
The trouble-ticket functionality for this place is really really weird. Incidents lead to investigations which lead to changes, but you can link and cross-link any incident with any investigation with any change and it just becomes a tangled mess of "we don't know where this issue came from, but here's the paper trail" *five hours later* "oh, it's just one change, and they noted that you had to do that one change just here"...
And then, while I might end up back at the other work (the one I’ve been at for the first half the year), the transport system that leads there is about to go balls-up. They're closing a major line that probably moves around 10,000 people to their destination on a regular weekday. And all those people? Are gonna get on buses which will travel on a two-lanes-each-way arterial road, detouring to stop at all the stations...
It’s gonna be transport hell.
I’m desperately hoping that it might induce fewer people to vote for the conservatives next election, but not freaking likely. We are the electorates of the car and the careless – frankly, we’re the electorates of The Best Nazis (the kind of people who prioritise being civil and polite and ‘this is the way that we’ve always done it in Australia’ over doing right by a greater number of Australians).
--
Also: on behalf of my asshole country and our asshole lazy fuckers, I'm sorry we gave Dump the idea about unending detention. Because Nauru and our "Pacific solution" is where it came from and we've been doing this fuckery for five years.
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Hey, my fellow Aussies? I'm 'starting' a postcard campaign I should have done two years ago. One postcard a week to my MP (LNP), just with #KidsOffNauru on it. And encouraging others to send one postcard a week, too. A postcard stamp should be ~$0.80, and if people are really cheap about it, then hell, I'll pay for the stamp.
Our local MP supports the Nauru camps. I emailed him a year ago, and he replied with the typical "they're being coached into being 'crisis actors' and that they could go back to Indonesia or another country along the way", and that the media is lying to us about the situation on Nauru. (Funnily enough, all the FB accounts I've found that claim they're on Nauru and EVERYTHING IS FINE only update their FB profile, are all interconnected, and work for lots of companies that have only ever employed them...)
I don't know how many of my RL friends will join in on the postcard sending. Hockey don't talk politics, quilting do and we're all left-leaning so the probability is much higher that they'll get involved. Church does and doesn't talk politics, although they've largely been ghosting along on the "ohnoes not social justice; spiritual justice only here kthxbai" line that white Amerivangelicals are starting to take HARDLINE (like, if you care about social justice then you don't care about the Kingdom of God, like it's a binary proposition and not a sliding scale). But several people in the church work with refugees, so maybe...maybe...
Speaking up, though? Even making the suggestion? That's the hard part. And I'm non-white to start with, but I get to do the work, because when they decide that there'll be a second-class Australia, I'll be included in it eventually. Maybe one of the higher 'classes' but still no longer equal.
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https://walkingtheheartroad.com/2016/08/14/devotional-justice/
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Ooh. Excellent idea. I'm on board.
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I'm going to keep doing the social media thing - not to "virtue signal" but to encourage others to do the same. It's less terrifying when there's a few of you...
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(never mind that this use of 'virtue signalling' is in fact virtue-signalling to their fellow travellers that they are of like mind etc)
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I have no suggestions or recommendations from our struggle to pass on to you and your fellow citizens. Lord knows, if I had a magic bullet I would be using it. I just want to express solidarity with the struggle, and sorrow that the Zeitgeist of dangerous and dismissive Conservatism has engulfed your country too.