The Hot Potato The Republic of Everyone with The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Certain people’s attitudes about the Asylum seeker debate and about human rights in general used to surprise and confuse me. But at the same time, I didn’t really see any way that I myself could make a difference or change the way a large portion of the Australian population thought about these things. I wasn’t in Australia when the hot potato van travelled around Australia but I heard about it and later saw the film. I shared the film in class while I was studying in the UK and saw how it was able to start conversations about important human rights issues and how a foodtruck travelling to rural Australian towns could even get a bunch of English people rethinking the recent European (and World) refugee crisis. Amnesty International provides a way for everyone to get involved and to start conversations like this all over the world. I’m hoping that through UOW Amnesty we’re able to keep that going on a more local scale. Mitchell Communications Co-ordinator UOW Amnesty
