Iam bitterly opposed to immigration detention. And have long admired the activists who work tirelessly to get the federal government to do better, to recognise why it is that refugees seek to come to Australia.

Those people who worked on the Home to Bilo campaign ? Bloody geniuses. They were the ones who saved Priya Nadesalingam and Nades Murugappan and their two daughters Kopika, then two, and Tharnicaa, from being deported in the middle of the night. Or take Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition, who's been working on behalf of refugees since Cleopatra was a girl.

By the way, that Bilo family are happy little locals now (also, how come only Biloela gets the Nades food truck?). Jealous.

Just a few weeks ago, as Australia was dealing with the insanity of neo-Naz

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