"...We like to think we are exempt from history's stone.Most...

"...We like to think we are exempt from history's stone.

Most Australians are in fact immigrants or the descendants of recent immigrants, many of whom were themselves 'displaced persons' as they were known in the immediate aftermath of World War II, or 'boat-people' as they were known following the Vietnam War and the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia; and, secondly, it ignores the fact that there is no intrinsic reason to suppose we are immune to the historical forces and processes that have left the 'asylum seekers' without a place in the world to call their own..."