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Reclaim ‘RECLAIM AUSTRALIA’ from
the sad-sacks of shit
No straighter
road to reclaiming Australia exists
than the one the Gurindji took reclaiming
Wattie Creek
from the Lords Vestey by walking off in ‘66.
Only Aborigines and Torres Islanders can re-claim the continent,
while we latecomers back them for more than
ritual acknowledgement.
Together, we can reclaim what’s lately been
stolen from you and me,
and together proclaim Australia as a land
for rebels and refugees.
So let’s reclaim our privacy from the NSA,
Pine Gap from the CIA,
Darwin from the Marines, Katherine from the
drones,
our foreign relations from the ANZUS
misalliance,
our economic ties from trade-offs in dis-Agreements.
Let’s reclaim our water from the frackers fracking
our soils,
our farms from coal gougers,
our forests from the chippers.
Let’s reclaim the unpaid super-profits from
the mining conglomerates
and unpaid taxes from artful dodgers Apple,
Uber, Turnbull and his ilk.
Let’s seize control of our financial system
from currency raiders
and investment from vulture corporations
such as BlackRock.
Reclaim the people’s bank sold off by the ALP.
Let’s reclaim our media from Mass Murdoch,
our creativity and culture from
philanthropic parasites.
Starting from Gonski, let’s reclaim Public
Education;
affordable and public housing from bankers,
public transport from the fraud of
‘private-public’ partnerships
and our health and well-being from Big
Pharma’s prescriptions.
Let’s reclaim full employment from the lie of one-hour’s work a week
and make that working week never more than
eight hours on five days.
Let’s rebuild the weapons for these
struggles:
organised labour from the Union of thieves
and branch stackers,
participatory democracy from an ‘unrepresentative
swill’,
our liberties for protest from anti-terror
laws in their black-shirted regalia,
and the will to strike against Killard’s
un-FairWork Australia.
Let’s turn
‘reclaim’ into our refrain
with
independence our first gain
towards making
Common-wealth proclaim
more than a
nation’s name.
Authorised by the never-died
collective www.facebook.com/JoeHillorganiser
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