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“I’m getting calls every day from people who want to come to the upcoming refugee rights rally in Canberra. People who have been part of the community for ten years, and are devastated. I’m getting calls from people in detention, people who celebrated when the Liberals were kicked out, and are now realising that nothing will change for them.” 

We build meaning with words and the definitions we understand them to have. It’s also hard to have a conversation with a limited set of words — if you want to express something but you don’t have a word for it, your explanation tends to be less precise, less streamlined.

The Federal Government recently announced the first national cultural policy in almost a decade. The policy, Revive, was described by Minister for the Arts Tony Burke as “a comprehensive roadmap for Australia’s arts and culture.”