

What sort of country are we?
Julian Burnside asking 'What Sort of Country Are We?' ,Wir sind alle Ausländer. Fast überall' 'We are all foreigners. Almost everywhere' - German bumper sticker What does it mean to be 'native born'? How does this category entitle us to deny another category --- refugees, asylum seekers, the desperate -- their basic human rights? to incarcerate them indefinitely and trash their lives at the stroke of a blank-faced, grey-suited bureaucrat's pen? Sixty years after World War I