The 2019 Federal Election

How do we respond to this?
In the face of a decision by more than half of the country that the wealthy deserve more, that immigrants are dangerous, that the environment is there for trashing, that the next generation can clean up our messes, it's hard to sit down and write.

In fact, the project we've been working on, 'The Sky is being Emptied of Birds', just keeps becoming more and more urgent. Initially called 'The Social Sins', it's a work that takes on the seven social sins as identified by a certain Reverend Donaldson in 1928, and adopted by Gandhi. These are:

Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Religion without sacrifice
Politics without principle

7-ON has been working on this project for over a year. In discussions, we were always referencing Trump, but clearly these sins are lapping on our own shores.

That's what we can do: write about this slow creep, wake people up to what they're increasingly accepting as 'normal', and continue to protest, loudly and clearly, through theatre.