I AM IRON MAN.

What else? Oh yeah, then they said all former British subjects were citizens (but we weren’t even classed as subjects or citizens), yet we still had to make an application to become an Australian citizen, and we could be a citizen, but only if we agreed to renounce our Aboriginality, family, and culture.

Then we were finally counted on the census as Australian citizens in 1967; but now, in 2019, we still aren’t mentioned in the Australian constitution, save for the section that allows the government to make laws that discriminate against us based on race.

And now, to top it all off, we can be deported from the country where we are the first peoples if we don’t have the citizenship they made so hard for us to get in the first place?

Turns out that Immigration laws changed in 2014. These new laws gave the government the right to revoke someone’s visa if that someone has been convicted of a crime carrying a jail sentence of one year or longer. What then happened was that two separate men, both born outside of Australia but with one Indigenous Australian parent each, were almost deported because they’d committed crimes and been sentenced to over a year in prison.

Technically these two men are not “Australian citizens” in the most literal sense of citizenship laws, having been born outside of Australia. However, BOTH men are Aboriginal. So their lawyers will argue in the High Court of Australia that Indigenous people should be exempt from the government’s mandatory deportation powers.

They want clarification from the High Court that ANYONE who is Aboriginal cannot be considered an “alien” and therefore can’t be deported no matter their citizenship status.

So this story isn’t about the Australian government suddenly deciding to boot out Aboriginal people who are unable to get citizenship (though we do, unfortunately, have a very long history of trying to do just that). It’s about some lawyers wanting the highest court in the country to clarify that Aboriginal Australians, no matter where they’re born, and no matter what crime they’ve committed, cannot be deported from a country that their ancestors settled in over 65,000 years ago.

Some of the subtle clues that Aziraphale and Crowley switched bodies

Bonus - not so subtle anymore, where ‘Crowley’ is sitting prim and proper and ‘Aziraphale’ kind of lying on the bench

To anon who said: Consider this: Caduceus = Crowley and Azi

And Crowley plays Aziraphale as incredibly brave, yet extremely forgiving and kind to the end. Someone who shows no weakness even when faced with destruction.