G'day! Happy Australia Day! Or commiserations on 'Invasion Day'(though I believe most Indigenous Australians are over the pure angst by this stage in our nation's history, but I am sympathetic).
Now, you may have by now noticed that this blog post is in a rusty brown colour. I decided to do this because I have just finished reading the piece by Jame Cadzow about Australia's very own 'Iron Lady', and Tony Abbott's personal nomination for 'Australian of the Year', Gina Reinhart:
http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/the-iron-lady-20120116-1q1u6.html
I am just going to add a few comments of my own about Gina. Feel free to make your own, or to say something about mine below.
Firstly, to my eyes, even for all her wealth, Gina Reinhart doesn't appear to have health. Which is the one thing I noticed when I owned and ran my Pharmacy in Nedlands, Western Australia, next suburb to Dalkeith, home of Gina Reinhart and other massively wealthy Western Australians. That is, they all fell back down to Earth from their stratospheric heights of wealth when it came to the expression of their obvious mortality via their health, or lack thereof. They could try and behave like Masters and Mistresses of the Universe for as many hours of the day as Ms Reinhart seems to, but at the end of the day, she, as much as anyone, is reliant on medication and doctors for her continued survival and the prosperity it brings to her.
Secondly, the next time you hear Tony Abbott rabbit on about repealing the MRRT and the 'Carbon Tax', ask yourself, 'Who is going to benefit from him doing this?' It is my contention that the benefits of repeal for Joe the Bogan and family, will be penny ante stuff compared with the enormous saving which will be amassed by Big Gina and her little mate Twiggy Forrest.
They don't care about saving the planet, or providing a good education for a poor child in the Eastern States with the tax money, or a 1% cut to Company Tax for Small Businesses, or an increase from 9% to 12% in Superannuation for workers. They only care about exploiting the planet's resources, it's people, and adding to their bank balance, and it's natural consequence, accumulating power which they can wield to their advantage.
Which is why the pusillanimous sycophant Tony Abbott(and if you saw the look on his face when he was in the presence of Big Gina at a fundraising dinner in WA you'll know what I mean), has already been bought and paid for by them. And why he dances to their tune.
Congratulations on your new venture! And your choice of an inaugural topic! You've given me some ideas on how to update some verses, which may ring a bill for you. But this version is just for you!
ReplyDeleteIf Tony Abbott could have had his way
On this very important national day
He’d have had top honors set apart
For a special lady, Gina Rinehart.
The Big Australian, he’d choose that name!
That’s no snide comment on her outsize frame.
This woman’s fortune is so gigantic
It makes men mad and sycophantic.
The Right in Oz have great respect for size
Of companies and wealth, which leftist eyes
Would find ugly, distasteful and obscene,
Particularly that of the Iron Ore Queen.
That’s why our Leader of the Opposition,
Has made it his job as a politician,
To do all he can to preserve Gina’s wealth
Even at the cost of the nation’s health.
Mining taxes levied on her and friends
Must go. Their prosperity far transcends
Pensions for malingerers and shirkers
Who once retired are no longer workers!
Not like the Big Australian and her mates,
Clive and Twiggy, real miners! They're not magnates!
Why should they toil all day, near break their backs,
Then pay both Mining and a Carbon Tax!
That’s why Abbott wants us to join with him
To fight for Gina in this battle grim.
He thinks this woman’s cause deserves our votes.
It’s even weightier than turning back the boats!
PatriciaWA,
ReplyDeleteYour verse sparkles like a diamond. Thank you so much for posting this pome on my blog, as it is so pertinent to the topic I have spoken about.
After the reaction by the Aboriginal activists in Canberra today to Tony Abbott's comments about their Tent Embassy, maybe they aren't over the angst associated with the Invasion after all?
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