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Dedication: for Eva Robinson nee Julius
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Author's note: This poem is about Eva Robinson who came from [the] well-known Brisbane Julius family of communist intellectuals. She and her husband Albert Robinson were part of the struggle from the thirties to the late 1970s. It was a common experience for activists of all kinds to be tailed, photographed and have their phones tapped by Special Branch police. Much of that surveillance material is now in the public domain via the National Archives of Australia Security and Intelligence collection. The title is a quotation from a note scrawled on her ASIO file - someone disagreed so they kept on watching her into her old age...
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