We Are Better Than This: Essays and Poems on Australian Asylum Seeker Policy

by Robyn Cadwallader (Editor)

We Are Better Than This is a collection of essays and poetry addressing the Australian government’s asylum seeker policy. The aims of the book are to provide some of the information about the situation in detention camps that is being withheld by the government; to correct some of the government’s misrepresentations of the current situation; to clarify some of the complex legal issues surrounding the right to seek asylum, and to give some insight into the plight of those who are seeking asylum. It is hoped that this book will better inform people about the government’s to support those who are unsatisfied and seeking to change the situation, as well as those who are uncertain and need more easily accessible and reliable information. Contributors are drawn from several areas of expertise and engagement with asylum seekers.

216 pages, Paperback

Published October 7, 2015

About the author

Robyn Cadwallader has spent much time and energy teaching creative writing and all kinds of English literature at university, with a special interest in medieval literature. She writes poems and short stories, and her novel The Anchoress won the Varuna LitLink NSW Byron Bay Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2010. Her PhD thesis about female virginity and agency, Three Methods for Reading the Thirteenth-Century Seinte Marherete, is a study of the story of St Margaret of Antioch, patron saint of childbirth, who was swallowed by a dragon and burst out its back, proclaiming herself a hero.