They looked like refugees

“I walked around West End and saw people carrying their belongings on their head, under their arms, whole families, children, parents, grandparents... saw two men carrying a TV down Scott Street. They looked like refugees dislocated from their country. I guess people carried what they valued most. Made me ask what I valued. I should put a ceiling on my desires and have less stuff. Later, I saw piles of audio visual gear around three metres high outside SAE in Jane Street. Elsewhere there were piles of office furniture, TVs, electronic goods everywhere.”

Venkat, Kurilpa resident since 2018

Image: Queensland Museum, 2011. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.