Yvonne Allen

I’m a little late for Refugee Week which would have been the ideal time to post this review, but this book has a timeless message…

Breaking the Boundaries is a collection of vignettes from Australian activists. They come from all walks of life. As it says in the introduction…

What becomes clear as you read the stories is that activists come in many guises: teenagers, grandmothers, lawyers, children, parents, ex-politicians, workers, students, grandfathers. They can be the man next door or the woman in the shop you frequent. They can be a farmer or a newcomer to our shores. They are everywhere. (p.1)

There are high profile activists like Julian Burnside (who resists the term, considering himself rather an advocate for refugees who was stirred to action by a tragic case brought to his attention) and anti-nuclear activist Jo Vallentine, former Senator for Western Australia elected as a member of the Nuclear Disarmament Party. And then there are people you’ve probably never heard of, like Phoebe and Savannah Brice, a couple of Aboriginal kids who wanted to fly the Aboriginal flag at their primary school and didn’t have a flagpole to fly it from.

To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2016/06/26/breaking-the-boundaries-australian-activists...… (meer)