POLITICS, POETRY & SATIRE
parasites feast on underbelly
of fevered daily news cycle
self-dissections in smelly
articles whiny and spiteful
try hard toffs from dullard spires
slink to fourth and fifth estates
scribbling vanity in slimy mire
farming twitter with their mates
waspish handmaids of plutolatry
shrouded by capitalist carapace
bear bitter fruit from tortured tree
white stockings hold the winning ace
paratexting regurgitated paratext
pile-on, pile-on, bullies, who’s next
Jinjirrie, May 2013
Barry can’t explain
how water can turn to wine
too much Grange last night?
A premier year
Was Grange 1959
ahhh, lost memories
“A bottle of Grange
is pretty special”, bleats Tones,
“no doubt about that!”
Jinjirrie, April 2014
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“I can’t explain what happened to that bottle of wine”, says ‘massive memory fail’ O’Farrell.
https://www.twitter.com/Kate_McClymont/status/456227605616676864
#grangegate #homeonthegrange #bof #nsw #sydney #thuglife #lockout #barryofarrell pic.twitter.com/sR6qJ6Sim4
— Andy Park (@andy_park) April 16, 2014
So what did, if anything, did Grabbit and Mr Nick Di Girolamo drink together and when?
https://twitter.com/TonyAbbottMHR/status/456344274309619712/photo/1
it’s not about me
but trusting new government
the buck stops with me
bouffant bronwyn gaffes
in discontented winter
bishop serves abbott
march, australians
to dog whistles and old dirges
rule brittania
rich white settler men
demand free speech to enable
human rights abuses
dob in a colleague
divert healthy criticism
away from grabbit
public servant, hush,
under grabbitocracy
submit privately
grabbit bigotry
infests the antipodes
global laughing stock
Jinjirrie, March 2013
The state of free speech in Australia – the Immigration department stalks refugee activist on facebook and threatens her on twitter
Tony Abbott Haiku Centre
Palm Sunday rally for refugees:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1492369754323235/
Dob in your tweeting mate at work? So much for free speech
Death stare Bishop declares BDS , which is supported by the likes of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to be ‘antisemitic’, erroneously asserts that not all Israeli settlements are illegal, clinging to the delusion of the two state non-solution.
Resettlement not a ticket to first world
How the World Bank help the ruling elite suck countries dry who can least afford it, through deregulation
You privileged imperial settler fucks
squatting on top of stolen earth,
tormenting the tormented
who flee from wars you helped create
with scheming crony capitalist mates,
may you suffer a thousand abscesses,
temporary fillings for absent justice
and learn firsthand about
pain you inflict on others
with closed ears, slammed racist doors,
gnashing sweet-toothed fangs
on Tim Tams and Cadbury tours,
privileged slick white saviour thieves
who send hand-patters, guards and no dentists,
may your monocultural destruction
destroy you and the land regenerate
on the bones of sociopathic corruption.
Jinjirrie, March 2013.
INTERVIEW WITH ASYLUM SEEKER DETAINED ON MANUS ISLAND
TUESDAY 11 MARCH 2014
‘There is a lack of medical treatment and medicine for all diseases. The medical team suggests drinking water as the only treatment.
The only medication is Panadol, which is used as a painkiller to reduce pain temporarily but is no cure.
There is no dentist or dental treatment on the Island. Many of the detainees suffer from dental problems and the excess use of Panadol not only doesn’t help the pain but causes stomach and kidney problems.
There are no recreational or educational activities in this camp and as a result detainees are experiencing extreme mental and psychological problems. ‘
Grabbits wall to wall across the nation
Kiss pristine environment goodbye,
Grabbitating forests to grabbit mates
Greedy Grabbits don’t share the pie.
For Grabbits grasp as grabbits do
Farewell your civil liberties,
What’s good for them isn’t good for you
No protests to hinder productivity.
It’s work till you drop
for trickled down slops,
Like scum, Grabbits settle on top
Grabbits want the whole damn lot.
Jinjirrie, March 2013.
Tony Abbott confesses his guilty food pleasures and diet secrets
Syrian repatriation in the face of death: ‘The Department for Immigration offered repatriation to two Syrian asylum seekers on Manus Island, despite one saying he faced “certain death” if returned, according to leaked case manager documents obtained by Guardian Australia.’
Government pressures Manus asylum seekers to return home while pressuring to allow attackers back in
Brandeis: “We Grabbits will force you to grabbit from our pet grabbits or you will be cut off at the knees, left to moulder in the outer limits.”
i distrust whitey
for bloody good reasons
distrust my white privilege
may i be invaded
dispossessed of entitlement
sail ships around ignorance
predations on environment
give back land to land
its song to settle on me
to sustain future
make treaty with truth
Jinjirrie, January 2014.
Related Links
From invasion to resistance in Australia
“Capitalism could not flourish without crushing the resistance of people who wanted to live differently, writes Tom O’Lincoln in Red Flag. That has been true in every corner of the globe. Private property, wage labour and the drive to accumulate capital were incompatible with Aboriginal society. That incompatibility was the basis of the genocide that followed.”
Episode 22: Fuck Off You’re Full Of It* – We Don’t Celebrate Genocide
Why It’s Time to Redefine Australia Day
‘I concluded some time ago now that those who regard Australia Day as Invasion Day are right; the early governors such as Lachlan Macquarie viewed their conflict with the Aboriginal people as war and the terrible orchestrated violence against our Indigenous people lingered well into the 20th century.
Most Australians don’t know – or don’t want to know – about the extent of the violence that accompanied European colonial settlement and that is still synonymous for black Australia with Australia Day.’
Invasion Day: Nothing to Celebrate
Today, on Invasion Day while we remember that “white Australia has a black history” and commemorate the resistance of the Indigenous Australians and the survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and our cultures, it is also important that we stand in solidarity with refugees who are being incarcerated by the repeated Australian governments (including the Rudd, Gillard and Abbott govts) in hell holes on Manus Island and Nauru.
Unsurprised a Canadian settler makes the same arguments as zionists do to assert faux “Indigenousness”, like ‘I was born here’ and ‘the 1st Nations people once came from Asia.’ And this is a Canadian settler who supports the liberation of Palestine from zionism.
Settler colonialism is a crime against humanity wherever it occurs – Australia, Israel, US, West Papua, Canada etc. #endracism #decolonize
— Jinjirrie ??? (@Jinjirrie) January 25, 2014
For settler racists, it's about stealing land, romanticising & exonerating the crime, then appropriating Indigenousness. #Invasionday
— Jinjirrie ??? (@Jinjirrie) January 25, 2014
Nothing reconciling about expecting dispossessed Indigenous people to celebrate dispossession & colonial triumphalism. #invasionday
— Jinjirrie ??? (@Jinjirrie) January 25, 2014
Angela Mitropoulos on borders, white supremacism and incitement of racism in Australia’s military
“The violence, and indeed increasingly extra-legal violence, that increasingly enforces these shifting bureaucratic and legal placements of the Australian border propels an ever-greater recourse to mythic or naturalised definitions of what it means to be Australian.
But even without these turns to an explicit Southern Cross fascism, widespread Australian emotional attachments to invocations of sovereignty are an expression of colonial anxieties and white supremacy. The borders of Australia are the legacy of English colonization. They are neither natural or eternal.”
