By Situation Theatre 5/1/2020

Exhausted bushfire victims didn’t mind the planned 20-hour journey from Mallacoota to Hastings aboard the MV Sycamore. They just couldn’t stand spending another minute sharing a continent with Scott Morrison.

58 people, two dogs, a cat, and a rabbit have taken charge of a Navy training ship and set a course for New Zealand, just minutes after being told the plan was to return them safely to the Australian mainland.

The leader of the mutineers, 16-year old Mallacoota local named Sharon, told Situation Theatre by phone “We boarded the ship because we were told we’d be evacuated to safety. We all assumed that meant sailing to New Zealand. When told of the plan to deposit us back into the jurisdiction of that maniac Scott Morrison, we immediately took control of the vessel.”

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is already waiting at Auckland’s Queens Wharf, preferring to personally greet each of the 58 evacuees with a big hug rather than an enforced handshake.

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