Like most of you this week, I have been reflecting on the state of Australia politics and am thinking that a good shake up is exactly what we need...
For too long the two main parties have resembled each other on key policy issues - with the mining tax being one key exception.
With the independents acting as 'King (or Queen) Makers' (as the case may be), I thought I would again raise the important issue of rent resource tax...
I had this article published by The Punch... check it out here...
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MINERAL RESOURCE RENT TAX (by sqgl)
They call it Resource Rent
To me it's Resource Spent
Weasel words to ease the heard mentality.
WTF's a Mining Royalty?
Dunno 'bout you but to me
The word applies to art
and ideas and not the fart
of a coal truck
digging up shit just to burn it up
gone forever
transforming the weather.
We may as well go insist on copyright...
on what? I don't know.
But the absurdity shows
the term that rings true
is a Mining Extraction Due.
It's our inheritance.
Quick! Let's cash it in
while the ghost of Terra Nullius
still lingers in the desert winds.
Batts burning, earth turning;
Your children aren't sacred
while Garret's party is oiled
bending over recoiling
from corporate thrusts
breeding hatred and mistrust.
OK that poem is more punk than academic (your approach) but I hope you like it anyhow since I haven't put it online until now. It got a good response at a poetry reading @WordInHand, Glebe, last month though. Didn't you notice the swing away from labor that followed ;)
Hey sqgl... I love it...
You are spot on: missing from my argument is the issue of Indigenous land - I tried to include it but it did not do it justice in a paragraph.
I have a new academic paper coming out on this very soon (I hope) - where we look at the republic in these exact terms
Love the poetry... please send more this way
j
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