This Dispatch is titled “Chutzpah” and was written February 18 2017

האַלאָ מיין קאַמראַדז

The little boy who murders his parents and then pleads for mercy from the Court because he is an orphan, defines the Yiddish word טשוטזפּאַה Chutzpah.

When Kevin 007 defeated John Howard we were all ecstatic, little did we know we were witnesses to the beginning of yet another betrayal of Indigenous Australia.

The Apology which many of us were emotionally touched by (a nice way of saying ‘were sucked in by’) turned out to be nothing but a political stunt aimed at showing up his recalcitrant predecessor. John Howard never pretended he was other than an ethnocentric assimilationist. Kevin Rudd gave us hope that at last the ethnocidal Colonial imperative had been lifted off the shoulders of our Nation. A New Horizon, a Bran Nue Dae…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiShXMojKfY

One of the first initiatives of the Rudd Government was to set up  the ‘2020 Summit’. Nungarrayi and Jangala from Yuendumu attended. Before leaving for Canberra Nungarrayi (who sadly is no longer with us) canvassed Yuendumu organisations and collected a folder of one pagers to take to the Summit. On her return she was over the moon, she told me that she ended up sitting next to Kevin Rudd, and her husband next to Jenny Macklin. She handed the folder to Kevin Rudd who promised he’d look into it and was going to do something about the Intervention. He did nothing of the sort.

….you’ve got a lot of nerve to say you are my friend…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_1-SsnebFk

So you can imagine how thoroughly pissed off I was when Kevin Rudd on the 8^th anniversary of his Apology had the gall (the chutzpah) to warn against a second Stolen Generation…. I was pondering how to weave my anger into a Dispatch, when I chanced on an article on the Passive Complicity by Cockburn and Poole blog site which epitomized my feelings.

Cockburn and Poole (not their real names) are two friends who visited us in Yuendumu. When they did visit they weren’t wearing blinkers. I strongly recommend you visit their site http://www.pcbycp.com/ . Their Irish poet friend Ira Maine (also not his real name) also makes some brilliant contributions.

Anyway here is their Article on Kevin Rudd’s latest contribution to Australian Society:

Kev’s worthy opinion.

Posted on February 14, 2017

Kevin Rudd closes the gap

Kev 07. Loves dressing up. Craves RECOGNITION!

You’ve gotta hand it to Kev, welched on climate change, carbon taxes, grotesque inequality and reform of any significant type and stood back as theIntervention wiped a swathe of incarceration across indigenous communities. Kev you posturing sanctimonious wanker .You are at one with Tony Abbott on this. Your ignorance is so profound. You let the incarceration, the disfunction, the entropy happen and did nothing. In actual fact by your hand alone you made it worse.

Could we please keep politicians, and ex Prime Ministers out of the indigenous equation. They always have an axe to grind, a legacy to nurture, and they never ever listen. You and Jenny Macklin made the ‘second stolen generation’ happen. It’s your baby Kev. And it’s you who must bear some major responsibility for the lives of people rotting on Manus and Nauru. You posturing wanker!!

Goodonya Kev!

Hmmm, another case of workplace bullying?

So the world pissed you off from the U.N top job where you thought you’d find a cosy sinecure. Now you’re back for whatever brief interval to sermonise on the “ second stolen generation”. Yet your policies, unchecked and rampant, did more to alienate communities than your predecessor John “intervention” Howard ever did. By your hand alone you ensured that the militarisation of the NT was complete and whilst you pranced around talking of the ‘biggest moral dilemma of our time’ you walked away. You offered an apology because it made you feel good, but you never backed it up. You allowed the mass incarceration to continue as the only function of governance and ignored all the indices of communities riven by police and do gooders (a little like your self) who all had strong opinions on what needed to be done to repair the confected crisis you inherited from your predecessor.

You’ve never once tried to understand the complexity of issues they face and your solutions come as the facile musings of someone who always has a simple solution to complex problems. And they’re usually wrong. Funny, you never listened to members of your own cabinet either. So what motivates you to posture once again upon the lives of people you are so thoroughly and profoundly removed from.

And you assume the electorate hasn’t got a memory. On that you’re probably right.

Remember how you were big on homelessness before you came to power? You actually visited the odd shelter and pronounced, a bit like the apology, that you’d do something about it. Homelessness is off the scale now, because you did nothing. Nothing on tax reform, nothing on negative gearing and nothing on the yawning abyss between haves and have nots. And the reason? You have benefitted by the divide, and had no intention of doing anything about it. As another ambitious Queenslander you balance your convictions between righteous indignation and a holier than though assumption that your views are shared by others whom you never listen to. You are the echo chamber of your own convictions. And mostly you’re wrong. Like the other ex PM who believed he knew first Australians, Tony Abbott, you have a self belief that is purely delusional.

Please Kev, go back to wherever you came from and find a sinecure in a university somewhere , where you can make pronouncements on all manner of things and pretend to be worthy. And we’ll pretend to listen.

“You are the echo chamber of your own convictions.” I can’t beat that!

Drishat Shalom LaMishpacha

Frank

A luta continua! The struggle goes on… ¡Venceremos!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtl62-6pY_I

“Unemployed!”  The headline said “Unemployed”, as in

Unemployed Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann wins $215,000 literary prize

I was sitting in the back yard of my daughter’s home playing cricket with the kids – actually I was checking the paper when this headline caught my eye.  You would think it was the $$$$ that caught my eye, but no, it was the idea that Ali was “unemployed” that struck me as strange.

Fish Trap by Ali Cobby Eckermann

This is the woman I’ve known for quite some time, the woman who when she can’t write she paints, when she can’t paint she sculpts and when she can’t sculpt she goes back to writing.  All this whilst actively teaching, touring, speaking, performing, and caring for family and friends.

Ali was raised by a Lutheran family in South Australia’s mid north, not far from Clare, SA.  Do you really think that a Woman raised by Lutherans would be “unemployed”? She has 157 published works.  She comes to stay a few days in my home and unobtrusively finishes yet another work.  She is continually looking out for her family, from all generations.  She is often by the side of her aging adoptive mother.  To say she is unemployed is plainly wrong.

Ali Cobby Eckermann contributes more to our society than most people in the conventional workforce.  She is like most other artists, she enriches our society, helps us see ourselves for what we are, provides perspectives on our being that are normally unrecognised.

Ali, along with pcbycp’s major poets Lionel Fogarty and Ira Maine, are true national treasures.

Not content with winning the NSW Premier’s ward for poetry in 2013, Ali Cobby Eckemann went on to take out the NSW Premiers award for Book of the Year, in the same year. These were not the first awards Ali has won – look at this site to get an idea of the range of both her work and her awards.  No, not content with those she goes on to win the extraordinary Wyndham Campbell prize for poetry.

For more on Ali see this site:  http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A96913

Donald is absolutely right,

Malcolm Turnbull. The Innovation Revolution P.M. Imagination personified.

Anzacs demonstrate improved cropping to Vietnamese farmers.

Dear reader, we know there’s a wealth divide. We know, (for our regional readers who may be tuning in on their crystal sets), that there’s a dearth of opportunity in the sticks, and we know that the climate is stuffed. We know also that electricity bills will just go sky high, and even if you get off the grid, we’ll still be slugged as the rent seekers, (corporations) find other ways of making us pay. And we also know that no politician is interested in change. In fact they’re stuck in a rut of ideological fundamentalism, laziness and managerialism. Completely rooted you may say. And no one has the imagination to get us out of the rut. The managerialist system that has seen the commonwealth diminished, the public marginalised and sanctioned doesn’t possess an atom of imagination. And that, unassailable and sinecured, is how they like it.

Aussies civilising Afghanistan. This is what liberation look like.

But then Donald comes along. And Donald has the solution. The U.S have gotta win the next war. Donald says it straight. Since, the end of the last big-un, the yanks haven’t won a bloody war. And he’s dead right. That means (by implication) Australia, (who alone possess the glorious sacred, unquestionable chalice of Anzac-dom and all the nobility and purpose it sustains) is also on the losing side. That’s an admission from Donald that the sacred task of civilising Iraq and Afghanistan rates a complete zero. That’s “nought” in Shakespearian-speak. And also, (this is the telling part), it suggests that Korea, Vietnam and whatever the fuck we’re doing in Syria is on the wrong tram, and it’s all going to end in tears.

Last time we properly won a war on our own. Civilising the outback . Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries.

Now this points to a big problem with our foreign policy. The U.S, who is currently our No 1 ally, (until China offers us something better, and the promise of recycling political dissidents organs as part of medicare ) is clearly picking on the wrong people. If the U.S want to win a war for reasons of national prestige, security and flag waving and wants to have the full unquestioning support of its allies, it needs to pick on the right kind of enemies. It just wont do fighting people who are aggrieved and unwilling to share the glorious bounty of consumerism, market capitalism and long term economic, spiritual and moral impoverishment.

That’s why New Zealand is a perfect target, They’ve always been a bit uppity and superior as they’ve had the opportunity to hide behind the protective cloak of their bigger brother. They’re irreconcilably anti nuclear, and they’ve made a treaty with their native peoples way back that actually works. How dare they!! Donald should take a leaf out of John (WMD) Howard and invade them. Another intervention is what we need. But this time its one we can WIN!! And we’ll give those Kiwi’s a reason to feel marginalised and wasted. That’s a war the U.S can win on their own terms. And we, as bold, noble, pure Anzacs can share with them in the glory. And make use of those hideously expensive jets that don’t work and the submarines that don’t submerge and the tanks that we don’t need. Donald has never had a more willing ally.

Go Donald. Do it!!!

Ken Henry talks of the dysfunction of Australian politics. Nobody Listens.

The privatisation of the energy market is an unmitigated disaster. And that’s an acknowledged fact. It’s capitalism eating society . But what of small business and households? The echo of Maggie Thatcher beckons; ‘There is no society’.

Bob Brown. Talked of destruction of ecosystems. No one listens.

There’s lots of talk about the wage deal and the latest indices prove that the big end of town is making bigger profits. It’s time for a tax cut for the big end of town. Wages growth stiffed and it’s all good news for the shareholders. During a scintillating discussion with Cecil yesterday we remarked on how the city country divide is now an abyss, and it shows no sign of slowing. In the city’s there’s wealth, and privelege. In the country opportunity is drying up. Steady employment a mirage, and increasingly reflective of urban refugees who’ve left the cities for a more economically viable life, were they can enjoy poverty in more bucolic surroundings. And all awhile the federal government (of both descriptions) ignore the seismic shift as winners and losers are winnowed and sorted into their respective bins. So this fragment from another associate working in the onerous and marginalised realm of small business tells us where we’re going. And the fascinating assessment is that the politicians no longer represent the ordinary people. There’s a lot of ordinary people, and bereft of imagination, the political circus is unstoppable.

Tim Flannery talked of global Co2 Catastrophe. No-one listens.

On a happy note though Tony Abbott has been offered a job with Corey Bernardii, and we hope he accepts in due course. A man of his intelligence, imagination and wisdom is urged to make the move. That move could be Adelaide, Perth, the Cocos Islands… anywhere. And now for this pearl from one of the ordinary people.

Paul Keating, Predicted the banana republic. No one listened.

‘In my view, under the current regulatory regime, small businesses such as ours need to collaborate and co-operate, rather than bitch and bite each other, whilst in the meantime, the mega corporations continue to rule the pack and effectively tax us all to enrich their shareholders. There is no constraint upon the large corporations, and they remain “protected” corporations by the competition laws that protect their duopolys and oligopolys. The ACCC and the Courts deem them to provide outcomes that are in the “consumers interest” – if you can screw a supplier to death, and another one pops up who is just breathing, thats just fine and OK. The only path to prosperity for the small end of town, is to go around the mega companies and not to engage with the mega corps at all – get to the consumer by other pathways.

It is this very basic imbalance in the structure of the competition laws in this country that is widening the wealth gap between the haves and the have nots. Neither of the major parties are addressing it and they continue to bicker and banter away in Canberra with their heads firmly stuck up their own rear ends. In the meantime Pauline Hanson and One Nation are harvesting the discontent. Their polling will continue to grow and in my view they are already the 3rd largest political force in this country. It will not be too much longer before they are second. The LNP are going to be thumped at the next election in Qld, but what is really interesting is that One Nation are carving votes out of both the Conservative and the Labour voting spectrum. Green voters remain rock solid’.

Rupert Says. Everyone Listens.

Men with attitude and real hair. The Trump news Team.

Lord Murdoch, accepts his investiture as gauleiter of Oceania.

So the New York Times doesn’t like Donald. Fair enough, Donald doesn’t like the Washington Post either. He doesn’t think much of the Chicago Tribune, and he’s not too keen on the New Yorker either. We at Pcbycp think if asked he probably wouldn’t mind the cartoons, they’re still a wonderful mix of the urbane and the idiosyncratic. Sometimes, we at Pcbycp, who can’t hold a candle to it, just don’t get them. That’s Donald’s problem. He just doesn’t get what goes into a decent bit of journalism these days. It’s hard work and not for the faint hearted.

We’ve got it easy. In Russia a decent journalist is dead. On order ‘from up on high’. There’s no future in what’s loosely called ‘Investigative journalism’ these days. Much better sticking to facebook and twitter. Donald loves twitter. You are restricted to one hundred or so characters. And he’s right, it’s all you need. Any more just becomes information overload, and there’s subtleties that the public just don’t get. Bit like the energy debate in Australia. The public don’t need to know as to why the system fails us. It may be rotten behaviour on part of private energy suppliers and the lobbyists, but the public are being told it’s all retribution for steering away for Coal. Pure and Simple.

And coal is right, they have an archaic, dirty polluting substance which receives huge subsidies and it’s at risk of being replaced by solar and renewables. Let’s not get the facts in the way, Coal, archaic, wrong, and inefficient, is ‘good for humanity’.

Un-newsworthy. People who don’t get Sky News and benefit from the trickle down effect.

So though Donald is really really cross with the journalists, he’s making a very good point. Most people can’t be bothered about the news. The news is just not interesting enough. That’s why he does his news through Sky. That’s Rupert’s baby. Sky makes the news compelling. There’s goodies and baddies, and nothing overtly complex. And the best thing about Sky-news is that even in Australia, you’ve get up to date presentations on how the news ‘really is’ from people like Peta Credlin and Andrew Bolt. It’s balanced and puts the boot in on anyone who talks nonsense about global warming, soaring inequality and on issues such as the decision by a group of very well paid old men to cut the awards for Sunday workers. That isn’t news at all.

So Donald is leading the way?. No way Jose!!! We, as Australians are leading the way, and the sooner Michelle Guthrie can get rid of all the trouble makers and lefties in the ABC and replace them with more ex Murdoch executives the happier we’ll all be. Because a happy Australian is a proud Australian, and a proud Australian, as Donald and Rupert demonstrate is more about waving the national flag, and talk of defence as absolutely necessary to being great again. And they’ve demonstrated this commitment by slashing wages, and watching the vast majority get poorer and poorer, whilst they get richer and richer. For those on top the view is serene, for those on the bottom, it’s just not news-worthy. That’s an order from ‘up on high’. Believe us, that’s news!

I Tell You True
By Ali Cobby Eckermann

I can’t stop drinking, I tell you true
Since I watched my daughter perish
She burned to death inside a car
I lost what I most cherish
I saw the angels hold her
As I screamed with useless hope
I can’t stop drinking.  I tell you true
It’s the only way I cope

I can’t stop drinking I tell you true
Since I found my sister dead
She hung herself to stop the rapes
I found her in the shed
The rapist bastard still lives here
Unpunished in this town
I can’t stop drinking, I tell you true
Since I cut her down.

I can’t stop drinking, I tell you true
Since my mother passed away
They found her battered down the the creek
I miss her more each day
My family blamed me for her death
Their words have made me wild
I can’t stop drinking, I tell you true
‘Cos I was just a child

So if you see someone like me
Who’s drunk and loud and cursing
Don’t judge too hard, you never know
What sorrows we are nursing.

from “Little Bit Long Time’ 2009
This poem won First Prize at the inaugural ATSI Survival Competition 2006.

Re-posted from 1 December 2013

This Dispatch is titled “Language” and was written February 20 2017

Bonjour,

Next Dispatch I expect to write about ‘Position Doubtful’ a wonderful book by Kim Mahood I’m about to finish. Meanwhile….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bawDFY8G-o4

“Above all, let us permit native children to keep their own languages, -those beautiful and expressive tongues, rich in true Australian imagery, charged with poetry and with love for all that is great, ancient and eternal in the continent. There is no need to fear that their own languages will interfere with the learning of English as the common medium of expression for all Australians. In most areas of Australia the natives have been bilingual, probably from time immemorial. Today white Australians are among the few remaining civilized people who still think that knowledge of one language is the normal limit of linguistic achievement.”
– T.G.H Strelow,1958.
“To deny a people an education in their own language where that is possible is to treat them as a conquered people and to deny them respect.” (The Hon. Kim E. Beazley Sr., 1999)

 “When you lose a language, you lose a culture, intellectual wealth, a work of art. It’s like dropping a bomb on a museum, the Louvre.” Kenneth Hale Japanangka.

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmLVxRS_Sxs

In these cynical days, one doesn’t hold one’s breath for positive outcomes. Los hijos de puta estan en contról.

But hey, what can we lose by signing the petition?

I just signed the petition “It’s Not Too Late – Urge NT Govt. To Pass Legislation To Support Our Aboriginal Languages” and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.

Our goal is to reach 7,500 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:

https://www.change.org/p/it-s-not-too-late-urge-nt-govt-to-pass-legislation-to-support-our-aboriginal-languages?recruiter=12232583&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share_email_responsive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1baOxLwccB8

Obrigado,
Frank

Making decisions free from ideological taint.

Dear reader, at last a sensible discussion from a former PM.

Mr Tony Abbot has nailed it. The Liberal party is on the brink of losing the next election. And his reasoning is spot on. They’re way way too left leaning. The trouble is, the electorate can’t see the difference between the Liberals under Turnbull and Labor Under Shorten. “Too right”! We hear you say. And this is a clear sign of rot. And the rot, could lead to something really disturbing, like full blown democracy, (sorry that’ll never happen) or just a whole lot of lefty principles like ‘fairness’ infecting the whole apparatus of government.

Mr Abbott, (who is a deep thinker amongst his salient gifts as an orator) makes significant reading. In his recently released suppository of essays, titled; ’Make Australia Right”, he surmises a “Cri de Coeur’ from people who think that Labor is moving to Green left and that the coalition has become Labor – lite”, He also claimed that his vision for the coalition was; ‘to maintain a clear policy direction that was philosophically acceptable, economically responsible and politically sensible’.

Santa. (before he acquired his little helper)

Good onya Tony! That’s why access economics revealed that over 65% of Australian support greater investment in renewables, and 65% is the magic number that got the same sex plebiscite across the line in Ireland. Don’t be spooked by 65% Tony and keep doing what you’re clearly doing very well. Be accountable. All donors who pay really big money can use the front door and the Prime Ministerial suite for private functions. There is one rule though, no one may dance on the coffee table, it’s made form real marble and is paid for by the taxpayers.

And be economically responsible. Even though no one in the electorate wants your stinking coal, Mr Adani deserves big taxpayer handouts, cos he’s a terribly nice man to have the taxpayer fund his really special railway. Though there’s no cost benefit analysis, but like the NBN and that future use is uncertain, bit like the froggy submarine contract, you’ve got a right as a right thinking person to plunge hundreds of billions of taxpayer finds into the projects because you wish to prove, (unlike those lefties in labor), you’re free of ideological taint. That’s right, you’re free thinking. As free thinking as Bob Santamaria was in stymieing Labor for twenty-five years after the Chifley government was booted from office. And like Bob, you’d rather have the Turnbull government kicked out, rather than suffer the stain of compromise of letting your peculiar brand of ultra right politics be diluted by left leaning compassionado’s. Now that Paddy MacGuiness is dead, you’ve got to lift the flame for Rupert, (Lord of Murdoch) all by yourself, and see that single mothers are punished, refugees marginalised and demonised, and that average people know where they belong as safe, smug and browbeaten. It’s your God-given destiny and you know what’s good for them. That’s what made you the P.M for Aboriginal Australians, and for that they shall be eternally grateful.

Mr Fahour and Jeannie Pratt. Proof that there are rewards and the benefit of facial reconstruction to those who work HARD!

Dear reader, we’ve had to do some pretty intense research these past couple of hours and we can tell you it’s not for the faint hearted. In light of the recent Fair Work Commissions’ ruling that workers should have their penalty rates docked we decided to see just how much a Fair Work Commissioner is paid. Now this is a compelling research project, please try it. We typed in; “ How much is a Fair Work Commissioner paid’? and all we received, (courtesy of Google) was reams and reams of information on how important the Fair Work Commission is in maintaining balance and fairness in the wages of ordinary Australians. ‘Hear !Hear!’ we hear you say. ‘Good on the Fair Work Commission’!! But after repeated attempts, (please try it) we still couldn’t get any idea on how much these singularly important and very very learned individuals take home. That left us puzzled, or to be more apt put us on a real ‘Ahmed Fahour’ type situation. And we are hopeful that Senator Patterson, protege of the IPA, may be able to enlighten us on this subject.

This is what a hard working Fair Work Commissioner looks like.

Now lets be fair, being a Fair Work Commissioner would be pretty hard work. You have to front to a Commission every now and then, which is probably like a Court. You’d have to get a taxi or a chauffeur driven car to get there, became your wisdom wouldn’t want to be tainted by the infection of conversing with ordinary people in the real world. And you’d have to earnestly (before lunch at your favourite restaurant) read actual submissions from the odd poor person as to why they are strangled by stifled wage growth and the cost of living. And then, you’d have to (after lunch) meet for an hour or so, (before determining which weekender you retreated to), what the devil these people were complaining about in the first place.

This is what a hard working Health Services Union Secretary looks like.

It’s not fair being a Fair Work Commissioner. Being a Fair Work Commissioner could compromise your standing in the community. If you put a foot wrong so to speak with your friends in the judiciary, the Chamber of Commerce, or even the party, or if you did something really radical as what used to happen in the Arbitration Commission, you could be in BIG TROUBLE. That’s the lot of those who must determine the lot of hard working men and women. Sorry we didn’t make that clear. ‘By working men and women’ we mean non-professionals. People who get paid a pittance for doing dull, repetitive, soulless, dehumanising work on a mind numbingly dull basis. You know, the person who serves our drinks at the club, or the individual who cleans the office toilets, and the other person, (can’t be bothered remembering their name) who picks up the rubbish. We get angry when they don’t empty the recycling bin, as we’re trying to do our bit to be sustainable.  But then again, lowly paid flunkeys are not that interested in saving the planet or the environment. I think that’s because they’re uneducated, or at the very least didn’t go to decent schools.

So obsessed had we become with the wage of a Fair Work Commissioner, it suddenly, (like a thunderbolt you could say) or a dropped scalpel, occurred to us that Kathy Jackson’s boyfriend, (do you remember her?) was a Fair Work Commissioner. You may remember the scandal? Kathy was also busy representing the lowest paid on the ladder of opportunity, and she socked away millions on travel, buying stuff and being entitled. And her boyfriend, Michael Lawler was a Fair Work Commissioner.

This ia what a hard working Health  Services Union Secretary and a hard working Fair Work Commissoner look like when they’re working hard together.

After a quick fact check we discovered he got paid four hundred and thirty three thousand (433,000.00) a year. That’s tough. And then, he went on sick leave and even missed the lunches, the end of year party and the overseas research opportunities, but got paid just the same. So it’s only fair that the lowliest paid should lose some of their entitlements on a Sunday. It’s not fair on the rest of us who’ve reaped the benefits of a freer economy and the prospect of stifled wage growth, insecurity and the prospect of never buying a house. And it’s comforting to know that the Fair Work Commissioners job, onerous, vexed and un-sung will continue to ensure that all of us who are employees, (insert low-wage earning scum) know (are told) just how much we’re entitled to.

It’s only fair.

It is refreshing to hear that the former Queensland Premier is looking after the banks.

What else can a former Premier do? They can write a huge autobiography and praise themselves for everything that ever happened as Bob Carr did. Or just get on with the job of pretending to be mighty and powerful. And what could be more mighty and powerful than working for the banks? The banks are the top dogs in this country. They’re unassailable. They govern the most precious commodity this country has to offer. Yes Folks. That’s Real Estate. They’re so top there’s nothing anyone can do about it. They’re beyond reproach. And as has been said by God himself; ‘They’re just too big to fail”. Banks are visionary, imaginative and the principle drivers of the ‘innovation boom’ and the ‘thought bubble’ in its entirety.

Former NSW premier Bob Carr admires himself.

When Government looks to leadership and vision the banks are there. And they’re the best banks in the world, and arguably represent the best banking system ever. Some, (and we have this on good authority) are cutting credit card fees by a huge one percent. How generous and public spirited is that?. A whole one percent. That’s a Rupert figure. What about the other 99%per cent you say? Don’t be greedy, as a reader of this blog you are the other ninety nine percent. We, represent the divine anointment of market based economies, it’s called the “ trickle down effect”. Get it!.

Whoops! Wrong Bligh.

The big thing is that the banks are really not interested in a Royal Commission. A Royal Commission would be no good for anyone, That’s why they’ve got Anna on board. She’s an ex Labor premier. Labor Premiers know all about working mums and dads. They represent the ordinary people. And we mean ORDINARY. After Campbell Newman, she looks like gold. There’s no one comes near her, unless of course Bob Carr was offered the job. Anna is absolutely reasonable. It’s not reasonable trying to get the banks to explain why they’ve made innocent retirees and the odd farmer stony broke. And there’s no point in putting the finger on some unprincipled, criminal, dishonest banking industry bastards. You see banks stick to principles. The biggest principle is the principle of winners and losers. For the banks to be successful there’s gotta be losers. And if someone gets shirty about losing the lot thanks to some dishonest illegal, criminal advice from a unprincipled banking executive it’s just they got caught on the ‘downside’. There’s an ‘upside’ though.

Steve Bracks. Doing it for the local car industry.

Anna knows a lot about banking, sent the people of Queensland broke. That was good for banks. Her accounting was so shithouse Campbell came in and sold off everything else. Campbell was really a new broom, he really cleaned things up. Anna will also make a clean sweep and she’ll reassure the public that Australian banks are the best, ‘most safest’ institutions in the world. In fact that banks are so heavily geared to housing as the expression goes, they’re ‘as safe as houses’. And the boom in real estate is eternal. And the banks have told the government not to change the iniquitous polices of negative gearing, tax write offs for the super rich and all the other shit the kleptocracy gets away with. Because pure and simply,’They Can’.

So shut up! leave the banks alone! They’re visionary. They’re agents of dynamic change and they’ve got things well and truly under control and their profits are stratospheric. As they say; ‘if it aint broke’. And Anna is so nice. She puts a face on banking you can trust. And she’s reassuring. That’s what the public needs someone familiar and in authority, (of a sort) to say: ‘There’s nothing to see here, move along, move along’. In banking that’s called, “ Public accountability”.

Makes good cents heh!