This past week I ran inflatable building workshops with a group of refugees, mostly from Bhutan, in the Northern Suburbs of Launceston, Tasmania. We heard stories from some of the elder participants being in UN camps for over 20 years before being granted asylum in Australia. I can’t even begin to imagine the feeling of living in limbo for that long. The official channels are obviously so inefficient and the amount of places Australia offers are so insufficient to accommodate the many people being persecuted around the world it is easy to see why people travel any way possible with a chance of a new future. But I can’t even imagine what will happen what will happen when the world starts getting climate refugees. Can we be any more inhumane that Rudd’s PNG ‘solution’? It’s shameful. 

Anyway we had a really fun week making an inflatable together which I gifted to the community. We constructed it out of discarded umbrellas and tents abandoned after the Tasmanian Falls Festival.