We are ALL boat people

We are all boat people is an online activism site devoted to dispelling myths that abound about the issue of 'boat people' arriving in Australia. The main tenet of the website is that we are ALL boat people: at some point, every non-indigineous person in Australia had relatives who arrived here by boat (or, in more recent times, maybe by plane). Our ancestors came over on the First Fleet, ie boats...

This website is an example of new media technologies enabling a social movement, as described by Barbara Creed in 'The Global Self and the New Reality'. Anuradha Vittachi, co-founder of OneWorld Online, describes a 'cybercitizen' who is a concerned individual who has become an activist in the virtual public sphere. We are all boat people enables 'cybercitizens' through the dissemination of information, the dispersing of myths and the promotion of constructive solutions.