My secret heart has always begged
To see Scott Morrison soundly egged
And now it鈥檚 happened, but alas,
It鈥檚 crude and naughty (second-class).
Like Shorten, I hawed and hemmed,
Yes, it鈥檚 something to be condemned.
Art & poetry
鈥淭he river is the blood of the Earth鈥, Muruwari and Budjiti man and artist Bruce Shillingsworth declared at the 鈥淵aama Ngunna Baaka 鈥 Welcome to Our River鈥 Mosman Art Gallery exhibition on April 28.
The Reds are under the beds again!
They鈥檝e hidden there since god knows when,
Our world is torn asunder
It鈥檚 kids鈥 beds they鈥檙e under
Along with Muslims and refugee men.
Labor鈥檚 dared to turn the focus
To the low-paid worker locus.
Don't they know it鈥檚 millionaires
Who need more cash and more shares,
Labor鈥檚 done it to provoke us.
It鈥檚 such an esoteric case,
Why care about the working base?
We know the best way to go
With wages now nicely low,
Don鈥檛 these workers know their place?
A long time ago Martin Luther King
Sought justice for his minority,
But his white friends demurred, 鈥淭hat鈥檚 not a thing
Four months after her聽聽from an Israeli prison, Palestinian poet and photographer聽聽received the Oxfam Novib PEN Award for Freedom of Expression in The Hague in January.
Rock & Roll Harbour
Exhibition by The Shop Gallery
112 Glebe Point Road, Glebe
Thurs聽January 3 鈥 Wed Jan 9
Peter Gow is the people鈥檚聽artist.
His ouvre is driven by his down-to-earth, inner-city environment such as boathouses and the heritage-listed Sydney Harbour Bridge in various attitudes, all of which feature prominently in this聽exhibition.
Gow is a qualified electrician and聽builder as well, very handy for making the frames in his spare time that embrace his聽art.
It was a cold and blustery day in Sydney on June 23 when poet Candy Royalle laid down her warrior gloves and breathed her last. The queer, Arabic, literary and protest worlds bowed their heads in shock and lamented her loss.
Candy was a proud Palestinian-Lebanese queer woman and an electric poet and performer. She was ferocious on stage, offering audiences a heady mix of lesbian sexual liberation and searing anti-colonial orations.
PNG has asked that someone be tasked
To examine Manus as a destination
For tourism indeed, so let鈥檚 take heed!
They鈥檙e awaiting a recommendation.
聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽Dear Sir or Madam
For your disposal I have a proposal
For the Manus tourism survey,
They need some actions, they need attractions
For the industry they want to purvey.
It might be great to celebrate
What happened at the war鈥檚 close,
When vast shipments of US equipments
Rotted on the base, as everyone knows.
The season of zonked flies
Trapped behind windowpanes
They fall into coffee cups
Loll in left over gravy on dinner plates
A last indulgence on dessert platters
Rolling over, legs up
Not dead yet but on the way
Gone brutally bonkers
No wriggling out of here
(To the tune of Teddy Bears' Picnic)
If you go up to the Senate today
You鈥檒l surely feel no surprise
If you go up to the Senate today
You鈥檒l scarcely need a disguise
For every tycoon who ever there was
Is rejoicing there for certain becos
Today鈥檚 the day they鈥檙e getting their tax cut鈥.
A party day for millionaires
They鈥檙e having a lovely time today,
It hardly took them unawares
It鈥檚 been planned since election day.
Peter Dutton鈥檚 talking to the gun lobby,
Cos that鈥檚 the kind of thing he does.
After all, it鈥檚 just a harmless hobby,
Giving macho men a lovely buzz.
And now he鈥檚 desirous of importing
Some macho men from far away,
He has great experience in sorting
Who should be blocked and who should stay....
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