Statement from the Super Glue Seven:
We acknowledge we gather today on Ngunnawal country. We pay respect to the Ngunnawal and many other tribes part of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. We also pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty of the land has never been ceded.
We wish to thank Tim Sharman for representing us in this matter.
In late 2016 we delivered a message to parliamentarians about the humanitarian crisis underway because of the current refugee regime.
We wanted to let them know that members of both major parties are complicit in the murder, rape, torture and child abuse of refugees and asylum seekers.
Today we were rightly found not guilty of intentionally damaging commonwealth property.
We charge that the real damage to the commonwealth is being caused by politicians like Peter Dutton, who are intentionally destroying the lives of people guilty of nothing more than seeking a safe home.
The concentration of power and mismanagement of the so-called super ministry of Home Affairs is a blight and disgrace on our democracy.
The only thing super about Peter Dutton’s ministry is its ability to inflict harm on some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
Who would believe that 2018 Australia would include dawn raids to snatch individuals from their homes?
Who would believe that forcible deportations would become a part of the Australian government’s everyday activities?
Deportations, that in some cases constitutes refoulement, an international crime. Children are being forcibly separated from their families – a reality disgracefully known all too well by First Nations peoples. A reality that needs to stop.
Australia is becoming a world leader in cruelty – and the silence from Labor deafening.
Both sides of politics have criminalised the act of asking for help.
Both the Liberal Nationals – and the Labor Party – have lost their moral compass.
Until every single person in offshore detention is evacuated and resettled safely, until every single person in onshore detention is released into the community, we will continue to act.
We stand defiant and we urge all Australians to stand up for what is right.
We refuse to be complicit to this murderous regime.
This is still a state of emergency.
This is still a humanitarian crisis.
Super Glue Seven 2018.
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