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Australia's day for secrets, flags and cowards : Comments
By John Pilger, published 25/1/2016Among settler nations with indigenous populations, apart from a facile 'apology' in 2008, only Australia has refused to come to terms with the shame of its colonial past.
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It is not too late to rename tomorrow not Austraya Day but:
White Man's Conquest Smite All Day.
Even if the sure thing Republic means First Australian President Turnbull dismisses First Muslim Prime Minister Waleed Aly, we need to get serious.
To that end and with Abject (Abbott) Apologies to Rudyard Kipling:
Take up the White Man’s burden.
Send forth your sturdy kin,
And load them down with Bibles
And cannon-balls and gin.
Throw in a few diseases
Pox, AIDS, LGB and T,
We hetero heroes
Are quite behind the times.
And don’t forget the factories.
On our benighted shores
No cheerful iron mines,
And Dick Smith shut his stores.
We no longer work eight hours a day
Poor CMFEU,
Altho they never have to pay
Bill Shorten sniffing glue.
Take up the White Man’s burden,
And teach the Timorese
What interest and taxes are
Eat boiled Missionaries.
Give them NRA assault rifles,
And prisons, too, galore,
If Donald Trump shoots em,
They spill their heathen spore.
And if you are totally confused,
By this Pete's poetry
Of gunboats rightly used
Then Rhrosty climb a tree
Like Ninja drop bears enthused.
And let us ever humbly pray
The Lord of Hosts may deign
To stir our feeble memories
Up "Austraya" beer and wine!
Your in Copyright
Poida da Great.