The following text is under Greg’s work:
“A boat is built to the human scale, but the lighfboat is intended as a singular watercraft, which points to the individual’s plight. It’s not a boatload of ‘them’ it is a singular human, the fleeing individual, a ‘fanfare for the common man’.
The westernised philosophy that we know best … couldn’t be further from the truth.”
I have a song about refugees called Lies like “illegals” that Greg thought matched his work very well.
There is a snippet HERE showing me singing a verse doing a selfie in front of Greg’s Lighfboat (which glows gently in the dark like the rudder-less, asylum-seeking, life-capsule it represents)
The rest of the words to Lies Like “Illegals” below
Lies Like “Illegal” – jenny fitzgibbon Nov 2013
Baba Daddy, Maman Mummy, koodak child in Farsi, the language used by the majority of asylum seekers in recent years.
Asylum they come seeking In a boat that’s leaking
Gets the pollies freaking When the boat comes in
No peace for Baba, No peace for Maman
No peace for koodak, surely it’s a sin
Zero information goes out to the nation
An abomination When the boat comes in
To ‘secure’ our borders We give Navy orders
Racists would applaud us When the boat comes in
No peace for Baba, No peace for Maman
No peace for koodak, surely it’s a sin
Why say a prayer Teach your kids to care
Then refuse to share When the boat comes in
Private corporations Profit from our nation’s
Freedom deprivations When the boat comes in
No peace for Baba, No peace for Maman
No peace for koodak, surely it’s a sin
Forked tongues a-lashing In a right-wing fashion
Why not show compassion When the boat comes in
Even though there’s no ‘queue’ take the pain you’ve been thru
To Manus or Nauru When the boat comes in
No peace for Baba, No peace for Maman
No peace for koodak, surely it’s a sin
Labor and the Libs Hard hearts in their ribs
Twist facts to fibs When the boat comes in
If I’d a son or daughter fleeing famine or slaughter
I’d cross any water When the boat comes in
No Peace …
A label like “illegals” Lies like “illegal”
Should be illegal When the boat comes in