Julian Burnside is a good and decent person a lawyer who helps the Stateless refugees <br />The people who are in Australian Detention Centres the boat people from war zones overseas <br />Their only crime to look for a better life in any case this should not be a crime <br />Many of them back to where they came from deported after a few years of hard detention time <br />But Julian Burnside the one who defends them he pleads their case in the Immigration Court <br />One might say he is the voice of the voiceless to the dispossessed a marvellous support <br />He speaks on their behalf to the media one can say his heart's in the right place <br />The champion lawyer of the downtrodden such worthy causes he chooses to embrace <br />He speaks for and represents the Stateless a man who is well worthy of his fame <br />For his work on behalf of refugees his has become an Aussie household name <br />He takes on the might of the Australian Government on his quest of a fair go for all <br />In centuries from now the name of Julian Burnside is a name that historians will recall <br />As one who did his own bit for humanity people like him have always been so rare <br />On behalf of the dispossessed one can say of him he has done more than one person's share.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/julian-burnside/
