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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Bug Story
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'I n the eighties Dani used to date this girl called Vera, and Vera was seeing this guy called Adam. Not like a secret lesbian thing, but like an everyone was sleeping with everyone else kind of thing. Adam was a handsome guy, but he thought a little too highly of himself for not minding that the women he slept with slept with other women. Other than that he was ok. The worst thing about him was that he collected bugs' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon The Lifted Brow no. 33 March 2017 11019933 2017 periodical issue

    'The Australian Senate is soon to debate a bill that, if passed, would prevent people who arrive by boat seeking asylum in Australia from ever gaining long-term settlement and protection, and, as a consequence, ultimately rewrite the definition of ‘refugee’ in this country. Allegedly a deterrent to people smugglers and an effort to stop people drowning at sea, the proposal is the product of a policy that attempts to shift the meaning of words in order to violate human rights and international law, gag information, and dehumanise victims.' (Editorial Introduction (Brady-Brown, Annabel and Dzunko, Zoe Lifted Brow, The, No. 33,(3))

    2017
    pg. 32
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