At Home With Tony!

Posted on October 4, 2011 by patriciawa

Fiona Katauskas in New Matilda in the interests of balance with a certain ABC comedy, to which I will not provide a link, has given us a great cartoon.

But like many other cartoonists, reporters and commentators she has overlooked a very important fact.

Tony Abbott Doesn’t Want The Lodge!

Nearly all of the media have got it wrong,
But some of us have known it all along.
Tony Abbott as PM will dodge
The inconvenience of The Lodge.
Like John Howard, he’s not silly,
Where he plans to live is Kirribilli!

Ask any TV news reporter,
He needs sea to prove he walks on water.
And those shots of his daily cleans and jerks,,
Don’t reveal all of his body works.
Some things are best kept in obscurity
Beyond range of Canberra “security.

It’s rumoured he has a secret life
Behind the facade of three kids and a wife.
He needs to take care or he’ll be a goner,
Seen once too often with that ‘Belladonna.’
Whoever of these is his ‘lovely lady’
He should drop her. She’s poison. Deadly. Shady.

Then he should do that show, “At Home With Tony”
Just for PR, no matter how phony.
Show off the family; he’d have it made.
He can mention his mortgage he’s gotta get paid.
“Money’s tight, sure don’t grow on trees!”
Yeah, he’s just like us. So vote for him, please!

Nearby lives friend and advisor, George Pell,
A Cardinal, who can save him from hell,
Forgive him this sin, grant him remission,
With all those to come, at daily confession.
That’s another reason Tony’s ambition is
For our PM’s residence to be in……… Sydney’s Catholic Archdiocese.

NOTES: This was posted at Cafe Whispers and we had a lot of fun with it. As usual I’ve gathered my favorite compliments here for my enjoyment in my declining years!!! The discussion there was fun, but has now given way to more serious topics. Discussion was expanded though when Talk Turkey from The Political Sword decided to copy it across there!

COMMENTS

Sue, 30/09/11, Thanks for the laugh. The funniest things are always those close to the truth.

Miglo, 30/09/11, Brilliant, Patricia. You are such a talented lady.

Min, 20/09/11, Absolutely brilliant. I love it!

Catching up, 05/10/2011, Well he turned up at Windsor I think with the wife. Will someone tell her next time she goes out with her man, it would be a good idea to have a smile on your face. That is the drill, even if one does not feel like smiling.

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Un-named sources in the Coalition……….

Posted on September 25, 2011 by patriciawa

Un-named sources in the Coalition,
Fear their leader risks his soul’s perdition.
He’s not been home for a month or so.
Why that is, no one really seems to know.

Canberra is rife with rumor!
The L.O.T.O. is in a dark, black humor.
Seems his spouse has told him to get out. ” Just go!”
She’s so sick of hearing him say,  “No!”

Apparently when Mr. Rabbit
Is offered food he’ll simply grab it
To eat later,    ‘cos he ‘s always on the go.
Wives will tell you that’s much worse than, “No!”

He can’t be having an affaire!
Cameras follow him everywhere.
Every inch of film would surely show
Female advances are always met with “No!”

Though he might as well have sold his arse,
With Windsor’s fairy tale now come to pass,
As Greens pay up with a handsome beau
When he joins with them in voting “No!”

But Mr. Rabbit has no time for sex.
He gets his kicks with a muscle flex,
Or, after giving his word on a quid pro quo
He takes it back with a self serving “No!”

But will he never meet damnation’s fire
For being a cheat and a serial liar?
If at life’s end he can penance show,
He surely won’t refuse with his usual “No?”

Well now, that is anybody’s guess.
So rarely in his life has he said, “Yes!”
He’s trained himself so well, that his ego
May automatically reply,  “No! No! No! No! No!”

NOTES: Like many bloggers at Cafe Whispers and The Political Sword I am sick of hearing news stories on the ABC which begin with the headline “The Leader of the Opposition says…….” and reading media reports and commentary about national politics based entirely on speculation or hearsay, all too often promoted by the Opposition. It seems that whenever they want to distract from their own bad news they find some way of generating a rumor about the Prime Minister’s struggling leadership and reports of challenges from Kevin Rudd. They don’t let up even when the story is denied by the man himself.

I love a good yarn and gossip as much as anyone but I hesitate when it comes to issues which are sub judice like the case of Liberal Senator, Mary Jo Fisher.  Even worse, in my opinion, are the relentless attacks with speculation and allegations about someone against whom no charges have been laid,  like Labor MP, Craig Thomson. This week it seemed almost poetic justice when the media came up with a well substantiated story about Liberal MP, Sophie Mirabella, surely one of the most aggressively slanderous politicians in Canberra. But it’s possible that the story of her reported malfeasance may be ruled out of the public arena, so I reluctantly hold fire and refrain from further comment. I thought this little picture of the Leader of the Opposition with his dear friend and colleague, the Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, might speak more than any words of mine. Aren’t they a lovely pair?

I would love to write a polliepome about all of these people and join the gossip grapevine but I’ve held back, regretfully. Then today I saw the chance to do a bit of enjoyably useful gossip mongering of my own, when someone reported a delicious rumor about Tony Abbott committing adultery, a mortal sin for any Catholic, let alone a former priest! I think it was first heard in an airport lounge. My usual reservations about hearsay stayed my hand until I realized I could legitimately write a few verses based on my own personal observation of the Leader of the Opposition , who once admitted that he was more than capable of breaking the Church’s rules.

He has also admitted on national TV that he tells lies and doesn’t keep promises except when given in writing! This makes his accusing Julia Gillard of lying and breaking a promise breathtakingly hypocritical, given that her alleged ‘promise’ was not in writing! He’s notoriously bad tempered too, given to breaking glass doors when thwarted. Added to all that, he’s never at home! He’s always out on his bike, at the beach, fighting fires or all over the country doing promos, stunts and photo ops. So here’s my bit of rumor mongering, but it’s all based on known facts! I think my speculations will ultimately be proven true. Lack of denial from the Leader of the Opposition confirms my suspicions!

Comments:

Catching up, 25/09/11, Spot on.

BSA Bob, 25/09/11, I’m just grateful (& a bit surprised) the ABC didn’t do a “The Federal Opposition says…” when reporting on Swan’s recent award.

Patricia WA 25/09/11, Agreed, Bob. And now I’m wondering how long we have to wait before we get a comment from Tony Abbott or anyone in the Opposition about the unfair treatment in the media of their much esteemed colleague and fellow Shadow Minister.

Hafizullah Marren, 04/10/2011, First time here. Awesome blog and super post. Well done.

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A Fair Go for Julia Gillard?

Posted on September 15, 2011 by patriciawa

Asked should Julia Gillard get our traditional fair go,
Last year most Aussies would’ve answered “Yes!”
But last September we didn’t know
What lay ahead. Did any of us guess?

Do you remember a year ago?

Then we marvelled at our politicians
Working together in Downunderland
Where a Rainbow Coalition
Like something out of Wonderland
Had miraculously appeared.
Its members of such quality
Spirits rose, all the people cheered.
A ‘kinder, gentler polity’
Than this nation’s usual habit
Had even been suggested,
Would you believe, by Tony Abbott.
Then suddenly he protested
Such politics consensual
Were not appropriate in Oz.
Now he found it was essential
To drop that earlier view because

Circumstances had changed! And so….

Angry that his generosity
To some had clearly been abused
He was full of animosity.
The thought that he had been been refused
Gave rise to one long beef and bitch.
Those who’d foiled his life’s ambition
He dreamed of burning with that ‘witch.’
Daily, in a war of near attrition,
He’s made ferocious media forays
To attack her, ruin her reputation,
Against all parliamentary mores
With News Ltd’s approbation.
Yet she’s stood her ground, has his mettle,
Kept her cool, further enraging him,
When she taunted, ‘Oh, poor petal!’
As he sulked like a child denied his whim.

Seems he’ll never learn that wishing doesn’t make it so.

But Julia Gillard is already wise,
She knows how to make her own fair go,
Garnering those all important “Ayes!”
While Abbott stamps his foot with, “NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!!!”

NOTES: Reading Ad Astra’s post “Is Julia Gillard entitled to a fair go?” I felt I just had to write some verses in response, particularly since it’s now a full year since the Prime Minister was able negotiate with the Independents and the Greens to form government. Since it’s also the third anniversary of Ad Astra’s setting up of his very successful website The Political Sword this ‘pome’ is for him.

I’ve been frustrated throughout the year with the mainstream media, particularly News Ltd, echoing Tony Abbott’s constant refrain about Julia Gillard’s dishonesty and incompetence when all objective evidence is to the contrary. Her so-called ‘assassination’ of Kevin Rudd, and alleged ‘lie’ about the carbon tax even if they were true are both in the order of not unusual behaviour in ambitious politicians. As such they should have been long forgotten. These two factors are supposed to somehow explain her ‘lack of authority’ and ‘unpopularity’ as confirmed by no less an authority than the once unpopular and now former Prime Minister John Howard . These aside, I see little evidence of her being responsible for the ‘worst government since Federation,’ as Tony declaims almost every day and in every possible way he can devise.

Yet with a never ending stream of clever stunts and photo ops he gets that message out, supported by Murdoch’s media might, echoed by others in the commentariat, even in the ABC news room and probably helped by big business with astro turfing. It’s a lie that’s been repeated so often that according to opinion polls most Australians believe that Julia Gillard is a poor leader, the country badly run, her government doomed and her party, at death’s door, is riven with factional intrigues against her.

Ad Astra exposes that picture as simply false and outlines the remarkable achievements of the Gillard government. The economy is sound, a record number of bills have been steered and passed through Parliament, with many landmark reforms among them, and there have been no challenges to her leadership. Nor does she lack vision or narrative, a story to tell about her plans for Australia. In arguing that Julia Gillard has not been given her ‘right to a fair go.’ Ad Astra has chosen the words she uses herself in describing that vision and her plans.

She knows that the right to a “fair go” is the thing almost all Australians put at the top of their list when it comes to values, along with access to education, employment conditions, health, and welfare support. These are all areas in which her government has introduced sound reform within the past year! Many of these reforms, and others relating to infrastructure and the environment, have been designed and achieved by negotiation with the Independents and with the Greens to say nothing of balancing differing, even conflicting, views within her own party.

So how could I write a ‘pome’ about all that? How could I review the solid achievements of Julia Gillard and her government in their first year and support Ad Astra’s plea for Australians to give their Prime Minister a fair go? Well, in the end I couldn’t. I did try telling her story in verse, but as I typed what kept echoing in my head was this. If Aussies really think that Julia Gillard is bad, they need to be shown that Tony Abbott is much much much worse.

COMMENTS

Ad astra, 16/09/11, Patricia WA
I read your enjoyable pome on polliepomes on the iPad this morning in a pathology waiting room. What skill and genuineness you exhibit when you write verse. Thank you for the dedication of your pome to this piece on TPS. That is much appreciated.

Iain Hall, 16/09/11, There is something very sad about your post, sad that you can’t see the wood for the trees when it comes to Julia’s ineptitude in government and the reasons why her decline is all the result of her own actions rather than the media conspiracy that you claim here.

Gravel, 18/09/11, Patricia, as you clearly state, Liealot, in league with the media, particularly the Murdoch lot, has so badly misrepresented our Prime Minister, Julia Gillard and her party and all their achievements. I am so disgusted with the ABC, there are no words to express the sadness that they have descended to such a low level. In fact they repeat the rot, every day and every week of the year. The inventor of propaganda would be more than proud of what is happening in Australia. In your last sentence do you mean that Australia should have a taste of what Abbott would be like as PM? Unfortunately it would be total disaster but the media would report it as wonderful. I can feel a dictatorship coming on.

Patricia WA, 18/09/11, No Gravel, I don’t think Australia should have a taste of what Abbott would be like as PM. I just want the media to show him as he really is! Inconsistent, hypocritical, bullying, opportunistic, dishonest and not at all interested in the national well being.

Hafizullah Marren, 25/09/11, First time here. Awesome blog and super post. Well done.

Stafford Hall, 27/09/11, At the front Sophie Mirror ball, you know, the one who didnt declare $100k in donations to her (very) perverse cause…….

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Hard Labor For The Innocent?

Posted on September 9, 2011 by patriciawa

Tony Abbott thought he had a winning card
With rules for pairs both clear and hard,
But, challenging the ALP, rattling his sabre.
He forgot there was another kind of ‘labor.’

Straw polls told him that he’d be a fool
Persisting with a policy voters thought too cruel,
Besides it drew attention to a woman
Whose treatment by him was near inhuman.

Confined at home and left to suffer,
She’d heard he’d made life that much tougher.
Already sick at heart to depths unknown,
Now she’d have to bear her child alone.

Then Abbott decides he will, after all, be kind.
Voters should be pleased he’s changed his mind.
But other circumstances haven’t changed.
He’s still bent on power as if deranged.

There’s been no softening, no generosity.
He continues his attack with mad ferocity.
A man proven not guilty is once again accused,
So a mother and her unborn child, already punished, are even more abused.

NOTES: I wrote this as a post for Cafe Whispers where the story about the federal Member of Parliament, Craig Thomson, and his alleged wrongdoings has been well canvassed. There are many other similar discussions going on all over the net. There is a nice objective account of it all in Wiki. Anyone who knows my rusted on Labor nature can guess my political views on all of that. Obviously I have been indignant about the injustice of his trial by media with no presumption of innocence and the scandalous things said about him by the Opposition under privilege in Parliament.

Throughout it all I have been haunted by thoughts of his wife, Zoe, at home often alone, I imagine, because of Parliamentary sittings and in very considerable emotional pain. It’s hard to know the level of stress being felt by the somewhat impassive Craig Thomson, but it’s easy to imagine something of her more extreme distress. Does one have to have been a mother to fear the impact of all this on their unborn child? I’m no gynaecologist, or psychatrist, but as a woman who has borne two children I really believe the well being of the unborn is affected by the moood and health of its mother. Part of me would like to have been reassured that that was not so and that my anxiety about that child is unfounded.

What I hoped for in posting this at one of my favorite blogs which is more frequented than mine was to hear how other people felt about the lack of concern expressed from all sides for Thomson’s hapless wife and her unborn child. I am astonished that no one seems to have considered that. So I asked a series of semi-rhetorical questions, to which I wouldn’t mind some answers.

Has any woman in the Coalition party room raised it with Tony Abbott? Has anyone in the government? I’ve noticed that journalists often add as a sort of footnote that the wife of the beleaguered Member for Dobell is heavily pregnant. Have I missed an opinion piece or editorial on this? And why hasn’t the Leader of the Opposition, himself a family man, father of three young women, spared a thought for that tiny, soon to be born, human being?

It would have been interesting to see if any readers at Cafe Whispers tried to answer them. After a few hours, two women had agreed with my sentiment. And one moralistic prick had missed my point entirely! Maybe I should have expected that.

I have copied below in my usual way the comments directly relevant to the pome and its concern for Zoe Thomson I received at Cafe Whispers. Most of the discussion very quickly turned to the politics of Abbott’s pairing decisions and soon the whole thread was taken up with side issues and some totally irrelevant stuff. I could have asked the moderator to remind bloggers to stay on topic but I refrained because I was interested to watch how even very fair minded people didn’t really want to talk about what happens to babies in the womb!

I got a different and early (8.00am) response with some very relevant information from The Political Sword when I posted a link to here overnight. There the blogmasters, Ad Astra and Feral Skeleton, have medical and pharmaceutical backgrounds and both confirmed that my concerns were well founded.

COMMENTS

Sue, 10/09/11, What a beautiful way you have of expressing, such a miserable time. To think this change of heartlessness has only occurred because of a poll describing the decision as “nasty” was running at 68%, his best ever result.

Iain Hall, 10/09/11 Maybe if Thomson had thought about his wife at home when he was paying for a leg over or two with the union credit card the opposition might have been more compassionate in the first instance, but as it stands he will be granted a pair and the government has learnt that in this parliament that they can’t take pairing for granted which sounds about right to me.

Min, 10/09/11 , Just a point – the allegations against Thomson refer to an incident in 2008. Zoe Arnold gave birth to their first child in 2009 and they married in January 2011.

Sue. 10/09/11, Hang on, there is a look over there happening, the original post was a beautiful poem. So let them discuss the issue about why Abbott so grudgingly changed his mind after banging on about not giving a pair so that a man can attend the birth of his child. Straw polls, Sunrise whatever, the Mr Family man, the one who was willing to use his daughters for the odd photo during the election, was shown up as a nasty person.

Möbius Ecko, 10/09/11, Exactly Sue. Criticising Labor and especially Labor governments is a must even if using criticisms that are not based on fact or are distortions. Criticise the Liberals and especially Abbott, even when they well and truly deserve it, and in comes the Abbott posse to head you off back onto the bash Labor trail.

Ad Astra, 10/09/11 Thank you ……Patricia WA for your pome and your pertinent questions at the end; I would dearly love to know the answers to them.

jane, 11/09/11, I also really hope that Zoe Thomson has been able to keep calm and insulate herself from the stress of the ongoing stalking of her husband by the ghouls in the Liars Party.

Feral Skeleton, 11/09/11 Re: Zoe Thomsonand the callous disregard for her and her unborn baby’s well-being.

1. Gynaecologists say that one of the worst things that can be passed on to an unborn baby from their mother is an increased level of Adrenaline. Many studies have been done about the effects post-partum as the child grows. It’s not good.

2. Mothers can get Pre-Natal Depression as well as Post-Natal. It is said that the Pre-Natal Depression also has negative effects on the unborn child’s brain biochemistry due to the mother’s imbalances.

3. The last Trimester of pregnancy is when the foetus is supposed to grow into the bonny baby we get after a normal birth(hopefully).

Which is the other aspect of the unalloyed cruelty that the Liberal Party have expressed towards Zoe Thomson as an intentional side-effect(for you can conclude nothing less with the number of Doctor MPs in the Coalition), of their attack on Craig Thomson. And might I also add that the Fairfax Newspapers bear some of the responsibility for this tawdry situation too. I mean, did they have to bring out the new allegations about Michael Williamson and Craig Thomson the very day after he was cleared of the last set of smears and give him and his family no respite?

So, as an upset hormonal imbalance in the mother can also cause problems with the birth process and breast feeding, if anything at all goes wrong with the birth of Zoe and Craig Thomson’s baby, or in the period after, then these people will truly have it as a spot on their hands that the crafty words of Tony Abbott will never be able to wash away.

Just as an example, the chemical oxytocin: A short polypeptide hormone, C43H66N12O12S2, released from the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, that stimulates the contraction of smooth muscle of the uterus during labor and facilitates ejection of milk from the breast during nursing.

New York Times columnist David Brooks turned his attention to the hormone oxytocin, which aids in forming and maintaining relationships. He named this ability as the best predictor of success for both individuals and organizations:

“Oxytocin is a hormone that helps mammals bond…. In humans, oxytocin levels rise during childbirth, breast feeding and sex. Humans with higher oxytocin levels are more likely to trust other people…. I figure if we can hang Oxytocin Meters around people’s necks, we can tell who is involved in healthy relationships and who isn’t.”

Next, Cortisol, the hormone released when you are under stress:

Severe trauma or stressful events can elevate cortisol levels in the blood for prolonged periods.

…long-term exposure to cortisol damages cells in the hippocampus;[43] this damage results in impaired learning. Furthermore, it has been shown that cortisol inhibits memory retrieval of already stored information.

It suppresses the immune system by “muting” the white blood cells.

Another function is to decrease bone formation.

I Just thought I’d put the information out into the Public Domain so that we all can know that actions such as the Coalition and the newspapers are undertaking can have real and measurable consequences. Zoe Thomson is not some abstract piece of collateral damage in the Craig Thomson ‘Affair’. She is a young mum going through one of the most delicate times in her and her unborn child’s life.

Ad Astra, 11/09/11, FS Thank you for placing in the public arena the ill effects of stress on the pregnant mother and her child to which Patricia WA alluded in her post-poem questions. My guess is that the Coalition members that continue their vitriolic campaign against Craig Thomson do so without thought of such unintended consequences, as is likely the case with journalists at Fairfax. Collateral damage is probably not at the forefront of their minds, and if it were, it would be of little consequence. Can anyone imagine George Brandis being concerned about Zoe Thomson’s unborn child?

jane, 11/09/11 Frankly, I don’t think the effects on Craig Thomson’s unborn child are unintended at all. They are intentional and disgusting and just another example of what bottom dwellers this mob is, aided and abetted by the msm wolf pack. If this infant, or its mother, suffers health problems as a result of this relentless campaign, we’ll see barbed faux “sympathy” from this bunch of hypocrites-“Oh dear, how terrible Mrs Thomson, but it’s all your own fault for marrying Craig Thomson.”

Ad Astra, jane, if you are right, and you may well be, that would be disgusting in the extreme. With Tony Abbott and George Brandis orchestrating the Coalition’s response to the Craig Thomson affair, nothing would be too disgusting for them. They peddle loathing and hatred.

Gravel, 11/09/11 Patricia, I saw your pome in Cafe Whispers yesterday. You again have out done yourself.

Catching up 11/09/11 It has been hinted that Mr. Thomson will throw in the towel if enough pressure put on him. What greater pressure than attacking one’s wife and family. For the pressure to work, the wife has to suffer. Nothing is beyond this miserable and lazy Opposition. This Opposition has to be one of the worst this country has seen.

Uncle George12/09/11 It would be entirely appropriate for Mr Thomson to answer his critics, if he can of course, and I suspect based on information provided to date that he cannot. I have the greatestsympathy for his poor wife, but to suggest that a member of Parliament, and an ex-union official involved in what could only be described as functional incapacity at best and devious behaviour at worst should not be subject to any criticism because of his unborn fetus is really scrabbling in the dirt.

On this basis, anybody subject to criticism could just conceive a child and be sheltered from any requirement for accountability.

I am no lover of Murdoch or the Murdoch press, but it should be noted that the Fairfax press has also pursued this issue with some vigour probably because of the use of defamation proceedings to gag them for a considerable period of time. Unfortunately for Mr Thompson these proceedings enabled Fairfax to access a lot more potentially incriminating information relating to his alleged misdemeanours.

By all means remained a rusted on one eyed Labor supporter, try not to let your prejudices outway your capacity for logical analysis. Thomson could resolve this issue by providing appropriate information to dispel any criticism, if he can. Otherwise any impact on his unborn foetus is entirely on his own head, and should be regarded as collateral damage for the greater good, on the same basis as innocent Iraqi and Afghan civilians who suffer death or injury when our military forces and their allies are acting in the pursuit of freedom and good governance.

Patricia WA 12/09/11, I take your point, Uncle George, about my one eyed Labor supporter perspective. For me though the late pregnancy of his wife is of more concern than Craig Thomson himself and grubby trade union factionalism too. There’s no hope of forcing him out of Parliament immediately whatever the outcome of that. So what’s the point of all this drama and scandalmongering unless it is to put pressure on him through his wife at this particularly vulnerable time for her? That’s not collateral damage, that’s deliberate exploitation, emotional blackmail of the worst kind. Likening her to the women and children being killed in war suggests the all’s fair in love and war idea, but we’re talking here about the decency that should be expected of people in a democratically elected Parliament. That ‘collateral damage’ of innocent Afghani and Iraqi citizens killed and wounded might also have been avoided if they were considered before wars were embarked on. What’s the point of freedom and good governance if all standards of decency and humanity have been destroyed?

Patricia WA 20/09/14, Has anyone more recent news of Craig Thomson?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/the-craig-thomson-case/story-fndo48ca-1226502036282 31/01/13

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/former-mp-craig-thomson-sentenced-to-three-months-jail/story-fni0fee2-1226863919858 25/03/14

Did he go to prison? Or has he been exonerated in the light of very recent revelations about Kathy Jackson’s handling of large sums of HSU funds?

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Auction Here For Abbott’s Arse!

Posted on September 6, 2011 by patriciawa

With problems at my preferred site
From a bumchum talking lots of shite,
I decided to come here to speak,
Not wait for him to turn the other cheek.

Who’d have thought it would come to pass
That Labor’s fortunes turned on Abbott’s arse ?
Seems he said he’d be prepared to sell it!
Desperate words from a religious zealot.

I thought he’d already sold his soul
Desperately grasping for his life’s goal.
So this latest for him was no worse than a lie
He could later confess to, or even deny.

Or he could shrug it off as leftie spin.
It’s not always judged a mortal sin,
Sometimes leniently viewed by Cardinal Pell,
So there’s not much chance he’ll go to hell.

Which really is a pity, you know, because
We’d rather that fate for him, than Oz.

NOTES:

This post is not meant to be homophobic, though I can see its potential to be so read. Gay friends of good heart, be at ease. This is simply intended to enable some of us who are frustrated by a couple of unpleasant trolls to speak our minds without adding to their contentious and often insulting dialogue.

Two of my favorite sites and I myself personally have been plagued by two pests determined to disrupt and insult. Both those sites have a policy of minimal censorship which is great in principal but can prove very frustrating at times when a sane thread is sabotaged by their sarcasm, sleaze and slurs. There is always a welcome for constructive criticism and comment at The Political Sword and at Cafe Whispers.

My own site is not really intended for blogging, rather it’s a personal record of my rhyming posts elsewhere with any comments I particularly like, as well as an explanation of whatever inspired me to write.

I told fellow bloggers at both those sites that anyone itching to speak their mind about unwelcome attempts to disrupt a decent site is welcome to comment here. I’ve refrained from putting this on TPS or Cafe Whispers for obvious reasons, quite apart from the superficial issue in the title having passed its use by date. I have decided to publish it on my own site where I exercise my absolute right to delete offensive comments. I’m open to constructive criticism but I don’t have to accept insults and slurs. I decide who is persona non grata on my blog and the acceptability of what they say!

There is a potentially offensive term contained in the first verse of this pome so I offered to remove it if asked. No one did. So here it stands. My troll friends continue with their sneers and innuendos elsewhere, as they do in attacking others who hold different opinions from themselves. They are well known now, so their potential for damage decreases daily.

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Canberra Quadrille Retrospective

Posted on August 28, 2011 by patriciawa

This photo by Andrew Meares of L-R: Bob Katter, Adam Bandt, Tony Windsor, Andrew Wilkie, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Crook is featured in a story by Misha Shubert about the Independent MPs who negotiated with Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott to decide who should form government after the election in August, 2010, which resulted in a hung parliament. It prompted me to add another verse to the pome I wrote at the time.

Canberra Quadrille

Can’t you work a whole lot faster?” said Mr. Rabbit to poor Robb.
“I’ve got Wilkie waiting outside. Find a billion for his mob!
Independents too are watching, please make sure they get the same.
No dance this. Nor the pokies. There are high stakes in this card game.
Wilkie, will you? Wilkie won’t you? Come on play the game!
You’re reneging, Wilkie? That’s not how to play the game!”

Now he’s talking to Rob Oakeshott, making sure he clearly sees
The rule of play to tow back boats is not cruel to refugees.
Then he hears the cry, “Too harsh. Too harsh! This is a national shame!
No thank you, Mr. Rabbit, but I cannot join your game.
Could not, should not…..almost surely I won’t play that game.
Should not, might not…. pretty certain I can’t play that game.”

Now mad Bob Katter’s wish list puts Queensland on the map!
Mr. Rabbit nods, “Great! Thinks, like me, that climate change is crap! “
But mate, Kev, advises Bob he’ll win more playing with that dame.
So he hasn’t made a contract and he’s yet to join the game.
Says he should not, might not, may not join the other game.
Though he might not, but he still could, join the other game.

Cards are on the table now. One man yet to show his hand.
Windsor, honest and much respected throughout Downunderland.
High repute, Mr. Rabbit thinks, enhanced by that royal name.
Oakshott, could not? Katter may not? Windsor’s surely game!
No deal yet done. No play yet won. Still, he makes his claim.
Could nots, should nots, would nots, to him they are all the same.

POST SCRIPT 28/08/11.

A year’s gone by. Mr. Rabbit has not by any means
Won over Tony Windsor who’s gone and joined the Greens.
They are plotting with that woman he’s trying to defame.
He’s made her so unpopular the country’s all aflame,
But no one wants to vote for him. They want another name.
But Mr. Rabbit cannot, will not, accept that no one wants play his game.

NOTE: I found the article by Misha Schubert in the Age very heartening. It was headlined One year on, no regrets for the independent six   Bob Katter and Tony Crook did not join the other four in supporting Gillard. The others spoke in very positive terms about the reforming achievements of the government in the past year with particular emphasis on the quality of leadership shown by Gillard which vindicated their decision.

Andrew Wilkie was very appreciative of the Prime Minister whom he thought deserves credit for making a hung parliament work, and said ”So long as she goes full term, this will go down in history as one of the great reformist governments. Think of all the big reforms – the carbon tax, national disability insurance, re-engineering aged care.” He was equally complimentary on The Insiders where he expressed the view that the government could still turn the polls around. Among the many reforms which he mentioned as being achieved by the government was the National Broadband Network.

For Tony Windsor, of course, the NBN was a major factor in his opting for Julia Gillard’s government and he was duly appreciative of that and the amount of other investment and services achieved for rural areas as was Oakeshott. But as well as the positive comments about current strength of the government and Julia Gillard’s talents Tony Windsor has caused a minor furore by repeating Tony Abbott’s desperate plea for his support to become Prime Minister. ”the only thing I wouldn’t do is sell my arse – but I’d have to give serious thought to it.” Tony Abbott has rushed to deny saying that, and avows that he doesn’t use that sort of language! Windsor has come back very strongly saying that Abbott’s denial only confirms his reasons for not supporting him.
I’m itching to write a few verses about this once I’ve seen what the media make of it!

Among the many interesting features of Schubert’s article on the Independents was that although her headline was “No regrets” there was one man who did have a big complaint. Bob Katter felt very let down by Tony Abbott’s failure to honor a pledge the Coalition would put up laws to mandate ethanol in fuel – a lifeline for an ailing sugar industry. Since this was a promise in return for Katter’s support one has to ask oneself if Abbott really intended to honor it, or was he lying when he made it?

The original inspiration for this pome, written a year ago, was Lewis Carroll’s Lobster Quadrille, whose format I used for Canberra Quadrille. Since then Malice In Downunderland has become my favorite metaphor for the craziness of the political scene here in Australia which far surpasses anything which Alice experienced in Wonderland with the March Hare (my Mr. Rabbit, LOTO Tony Abbott) and the Red Queen {PM Julia Gillard). The negotiations behind the scenes between the Independents and Tony Abbott on the one hand and Julia Gillard on the other were sometimes like a dance and at other times a hard headed game of poker. The title just fell onto the page since the Quadrille is an old courtly dance, still enjoyed in Canberra at the annual Colonial Ball. As well, of course Quadrille is a card game of extreme complexity, also known as Médiateur at which women, particularly excel!

Julia Gillard proved herself a very skilful mediator/negotiator and was able to win over and retain the loyalty of four of those Independents. I bet she’d make a great Quadrille player. Maybe she’d be great at the dancing too! She can clearly attract and retain partners. A year on the government she formed then on the basis of those negotiations and alliances is still effective and achieving its legislative program despite raging controversy and the undermining of her personal credibility by Tony Abbott’s sensationalist sloganeering and negative opposition. Will he ever understand why that is not winning him personal popularity?

ANOTHER POSTSCRIPT, 25/03/13, after the bloodbath of previous week made the role of Independents even more crucial in a likely motion of No Confidence by Abbott when Parliament returns in April. Great overview of all Independents and their voting patterns http://whiticisms.net/2013/03/24/cross-benchers-what-do-you-think/

COMMENTS

Casablanca,    28/08/11,    Patricia WA, you’re on fire. Go girl! Thanks for all the pomes, I’m in awe of your abilities.

Feral Skeleton,    28/08/11,    PatriciaWA, I second that emotion! Your work is every bit as good as Banjo Patterson’s or Henry Lawson’s. You rock n roll girl!

Gravel,     29/08/11     Comment Well done again Patricia. I see the media didn’t make much of Abbott’s foul language, but I am not in the least bit surprised. It has confirmed for me that he CAN do and say anything and WILL get away with it.

Talk Turkey,     29/08/11     You are headed for fame as Poetess of the Struggle, and that is a Working Class Heroine award if ever there was one. I adore Lobster Quadrille, have known it all my life since before I was born! But never fear Folks:

Wilkie will not, shall not kill not, will not kill our will!
Should not, would not, should not could not, could not kill our will!

Su,     05/09/11,     Well said, PatriciaWA, she’s made working with a hung parliament look like a doddle. I just can’t bear reading most comments on Gillard anymore, they are so obviously informed by unacknowledged sexism.

Patricia WA,     06/09/11     Underlying misogyny is part of the problem, but Murdoch and the media backed by mining magnates (how’s that for alliteration!) are the real killers, I think. But on second thoughts that may explain the readiness of even rational people to buy into the obvious lie that Julia Gillard just can’t be doing a good job. Ad Astra at the Political Sword tackles this disconnect between the reality of her government’s achievements and the apparently popular view that she is at best hopeless and at worst wicked. A bit like the myth about women drivers still held by many against all the evidence!    Thanks Su, you’ve given me an idea there!

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The Convoy of No Consequence

Posted on August 22, 2011 by patriciawa

Warren Brown’s Cartoon: Trucks as the weapon of choice.

Whatever the reasons for their discontent
And lack of confidence in our government,
Those truckies’ energies seemed all misspent
When they arrived in Canberra to a non-event.

They’d made such great plans for their cavalcade,
Driving big trucks; some with trailers custom made
For their endangered business, the live cattle trade,
All flying banners in the anti-carbon tax crusade.

Unconcerned about the air’s pollution
To which they’ve made a massive contribution,
They want a double dissolution
Or else they’ll join the ‘Peoples Revolution!’

That’s a slogan they’d heard used before,
By Tony Abbott when he threatened war
If Labor taxed rich miners to subsidise the poor.
Nor were truckies going to take it any more!

So where was support for their demonstration
They’d been promised from across the nation?
Why so few joined them in their protestation
Of “No Taxation Without Representation!”

But that’s the US Tea Party catchcry!
That would put off your average Aussie guy.
Okay to get mad about a politician’s lie,
But join some foreign movement? He’d rather die.

Perhaps that’s why the convoy of no confidence
Was looked at askance, maybe with intelligence,
Then shrugged off with indifference
And became of little consequence.

NOTE: What a wash-out the ‘Convoy Of No Confidence’ turned out to be. There’d been so much publicity about the planned protest by thousands of truckies from the far corners of Australia travelling to protest against the Gillard government, primarily about the carbon tax and demanding a new election. Their rage had been set off, it seemed, by the temporary ban on live cattle exports, but road laws, gay marriage, fuel excise and the mining tax were all in the mix. They had coordinated routes for eleven convoys and seemed to have widespread support.

Tony Abbott actually climbed aboard one of the trucks in a convoy of 20 to 30 vehicles for the last leg of the journey on Sunday night, describing the protesters as, “Very decent, salt of the earth Australians who feel that they’ve been ripped off by a bad government.” I think he was hoping for an enormous publicity pay-off for his “No Carbon Tax!” campaign. Imagine the impact of several thousand semi-trailer trucks on Canberra’s city streets.

Instead only a few hundred trucks turned up. I hoped the lack of support was about a growing boredom with or even repugnance for Tony Abbott’s relentless negativity on the carbon tax. Or perhaps an awareness of how extreme the anti-carbon movement is becoming and so very much like the US Tea Party. That would not go down well with the average Australian, I imagine. Though I’m pretty sure that most truckies would not be aware of the tactics of Astro Turfing movement talked about by
Ramon Glazov, writing today in the Drum

I had the impression on Monday that the electronic media were reluctant to give up their angle on this story of the Prime Minister and Government being besieged by angry truckies and their mighty motorcade. But even Tony Abbott and Motormouth Alan Jones had to accept the poor turn out, however much the TV news made of the filming opportunities of even a few hundred monster semis. Today the print media was more realistic and The Age gave a good account of all the excitement of the non-event including the clever comment by Anthony Albanese in Parliament which inspired my title!

Sad though to read in some accounts which I won’t link to here and in comments on various blogs how so many on the right are accepting of the dishonest claim by Alan Jones that the poor showing was the result of a police blockade at ACT borders. A claim immediately denied by the police, but seemingly swallowed hook line and sinker by many of the convoy’s supporters.

COMMENTS

Darin Sullivan,     23/08/11, Great analysis of yesterday’s event…. well done.

debbiep,     2011/08/23 Great poem patrica. Love the way Abbott continues to describe the government as ‘bad’ , it is a ‘Look over there’ moment while inciting bad into politics himself.

Talk Turkey,     23/08/11, Well done Patricia. You don’t need help from Turkeys! But you earn feathers for us all with your pomes. No wonder Ad astra and The Political Sword are shortlisted for the relevant categories of the Wonkleys this year!

 Lyn,     23/08/11, Hi Patricia. Brilliant article, wonderful pome.

Gravel,     2011/08/24 Well said Patricia. I like the way you express your thoughts at the end of the great pome, you have a great way of expressing yourself. Keep on keeping on.

Min,     02/12/11,    Brilliant as always Patricia

 Wixxy,    02/12/11,     Patrica, that is absolute gold .
 
 
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Possum Comitatus – Cassandra Downunder?

Posted on July 24, 2011 by patriciawa

As Possum Comitatus
Not a year ago alerted us
The Great Unhinging has begun.
No surprises for anyone.

We see the embittered right
With all their moneyed might
And influence in the media
Generating mass hysteria.

The call for counter-revolution
Against pricing of pollution
Is one of many devious means
To discredit Labor, destroy the Greens.

Character assassinations,
Civil unrest. demonstrations,
Talk back radio jocks all jeering
Egged on by Abbott’s sloganeering.

Why hasn’t common sense availed,
Wise heads like Windsor not prevailed?
Why are Turnbull’s principles distorted
And as sour grapes or treachery reported?

Now, surely Gillard, however deft,
Can’t avert disaster for the left
And save the future for our nation,
Also its progressive, reformist reputation.

For that outcome is banned, prohibited
By the owner of News Limited.
But here’s a twist, even Possum did not guess.
A Deux Ex Machina! The mobile phone of a murdered child. STOP PRESS!


NOTES: How many of you remember the predictions of Possum Comitatus of the Great Unhinging to come as Tony Abbott, the Coalition and vested big business interests, supported by the Murdoch media and others on the right challenged the legitimacy of our new government. This had been achieved by Julia Gillard in negotiation with the Greens and Independents Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott and Andrew Wilkie after the 2010 election with its subsequent declaration of a hung parliament.

Possum is a psephologist, an opinion poll analyist, so one would would expect him to have an awareness of some likely outcomes on the Australian political scene. But his predictions in this article went far beyond an expert’s analysis informed by polls and an understanding of the mood of our politicians, power brokers, big business and the electorate. He himself might have described it as snark, a nonsense word describing Lewis Carroll’s fabled animal in search of an elusive truth, when he predicted

What we will witness over the next 18 months or more is a Great Unhinging –an orgy of hysterics that will far surpass the duplicity, dishonesty – let alone the complete arsehattery – that substituted for public debate on matters of government during the previous 12 months.

The goalposts of what constitutes government legitimacy will be moved from the constitutional to the convenient, from the reality of the parliamentary majority to concocted nostrums about mandates to govern.

Every policy and utterance the government or the Independents make will be creatively analysed, deliberately distorted and whose fabricated consequences will be shouted from the rooftops. This will not be an exercise in political analysis, but an infection of pathological political syphilis. It will not just be a campaign against the government, but one rolling, frenzied campaign after another, where each new contrived outrage will assume a greater level of mania than the last.

Short of detailing every misleading slogan, publicity stunt and obstructionist tactic by Tony Abbott both inside Parliament and out in the electorate the likely picture he painted then could not have been more accurate. Read his prophecy! The character assassinations, the trashing of parliamentary process, no distortion…..too large, no lie too audacious, no accusation too brazen,‘ have all uncannily eventuated as he predicted.

His forecasting of the role of the media, particularly the Murdoch press, has been equally accurate, in that the best that would emerge from this ‘new paradigm’ has not received the acclaim it deserved because of the destructively negative slanting and spin of News Limited’s Australian and its tabloid newspapers, with the ABC and other electronic media outlets weakly falling into line. This, said Possum would be a parliament

rich in policy generation – the NBN, health reform, a tax summit, campaign funding reform, federal whistleblower protection, a Parliamentary Budget Office and a proper review of climate change policy to name but a few – yet while this incredible agenda with its long, far reaching consequences for the nation will be on the table, there will be one side of politics and one wing of the media doing its best to turn it all into a complete and utter circus.

What do you think? Is that déjà vu or brilliant deductive and diagnostic prediction? One thing that did elude him though, was the unexpected!

This past week has for me been reminiscent of ancient Greek drama, so I see our Possum as an inspired downunder Cassandra though with longer life expectancy! In classical Greek plays there was often a Deus Ex Machina or divine intervention, an unexpected contrivance to either hasten or prevent catastrophe. In this drama we’ve all been watching that contrivance or instrument has been a mobile phone. The tragic death of murdered Milly Dowler has already sent tremors though Murdoch’s media empire on two northern continents. Will it have similar repercussions down here?

COMMENTS

Dave, 2011/07/26 Yes! Possum was on the money, but then it was pretty obvious to all and sundry that the elite right would stop at nothing to get back into political power. My take at the time was the loss by Howard was not entirely unexpected nor with a potential major economic meltdown on the horizon was the loss of responsibility for government decision making necessarily seen as a bad thing by the right. The problem that rapidly emerged for the Libs and their backers was that the economic calamity was mostly averted or simply failed to materialise in Oz hence they needed something else to attack the left and in that they have left no stone unturned. Their worst nightmare would be a return of long term labor rule ala Hawke and Keating. Of course they admit no criticism of their action so even the shipwreck of the good ship News Inc is hardly likely to slow them down, if anything they are likely to become even more shrill.

Darin, 19/08/2011, Love the poem, great post!

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Eating Humble Pie!

Posted on July 20, 2011 by patriciawa

Was Rupert Murdoch really humbled
Or knew he had at last been rumbled,
As talk-back raged and bankers grumbled
When News Corp’s share price sharply tumbled?

Poms now scorned their weekly snickers
Over stories which featured randy vicars.
Those scandals were nowhere near as big as
Hacked phones of dead children, or public figures.

So maybe a handsome apology
Was by far the better strategy,
Read as a mea culpa, an elegy
From a great man, at power’s apogée.

Regardless of the reasons why,
He’d reached the point of do or die.
Then fate, in the form of a little guy,
Stepped in, and threw at him a custard pie!

NOTE: Yesterday I thought I would enjoy watching the world wide television broadcast of Rupert Murdoch suffering the galling experience of being grilled by a British House of Commons Select Committee of Enquiry. They wanted to question him about his knowledge of the phone hacking scandal which had caused the demise of his most successful newsprint investment, the News of the World.

It was fascinating to watch this media mogul, used to setting his own agenda, try to set the tone of his appearance before a body of elected members of parliament. He was thwarted in his effort to begin proceedings by reading a speech of apology and had to make do with muttering a few words about this being the ‘most humble day of my life’ as he was firmly but politely put in his place by the Committee chair. For all that he claimed to feel humble he refused to take personal or even corporate responsibility for the appalling and criminal behavior of his journalists who had been prepared to do anything for a scoop. He had been betrayed, he said, by those he trusted, and like the public had only recently learned the details of the shameful hacking of a murdered child’s mobile phone. Even more seriously he claimed to have no knowledge of corrupt practices relating to police and politicians in very high places.

Throughout their testimonies the Murdochs, father and son, protested their innocence of any wrongdoing. They seemed to need to reassure even themselves of this by repeating again and again their mantra about theirs being an honorable business with the highest of professional standards which had been shamed and sullied by these dreadful events. I was repelled by the crass self righteousness of both men as they tried to explain away the payment of hundreds of thousands of pounds as compensation, better described as hush money, to victims of these crimes, and millions more in legal defence fees of the now convicted perpetrators.

Both men seemed to me to have been advised that if not honesty then humility was the best policy. I was sickened by their evasions laced with fulsome expressions of regret and protestations that their own and News corporation’s high standards had somehow been betrayed. The session was almost at an end, as was my willingness to listen to any more of their cant, when some supernatural force took over and gave expression to my unconscious self. A man walked out of the audience and tried to shove Rupert Murdoch’s face into a plate of foam custard pie.

Sadly the protest of Jonnie Marbles seems to have been counter productive. He stole the headlines all right but for assaulting an old man whose wife, Wendy Deng, bravely sprang to his defence. Then Rupert Murdoch was seen by many as a brave old fellow when he insisted on appearing to finish his evidence and to give that very humble apology yet again to the family of the murdered victim of his newspaper’s rapacious need for a headline. The apology was extended to other victims of of phone hacking or, as James describes it, illegal voice-mail interceptions, which sounds nicer, don’t you think?

But Rupert was most apologetic of all to their readers. Watching him apologise to this last group I think that here he was at his most sincere and truly regretful. What will they do without him and the News of the World to provide their weekly snickers about randy vicars and actresses who don’t wear knickers? And what will he do without the revenue from this fine newspaper with its traditions of excellence and high journalistic standards?

Now I want an apology too! Wendy Deng should apologise for having deprived me, along with countless others, of a souvenir photograph of her husband with egg custard on his face.

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Poor Fellows, My Countrymen!

Posted on July 14, 2011 by patriciawa

Once proud strong Aussies are crying poor,
They’re sad and worried, don’t know what for.
Tony Abbott says the reason why
Is that Julia Gillard told a lie.

He’s determined they should know the facts
About her proposal for a carbon tax.
When they know the truth they’re bound to can it
And opt for his own scheme to save the planet.

So he’s travelling here and appearing there
Warning everyone of the great big scare
Julia Gillard’s raised about pollution
As subterfuge for a social revolution.

People should beware the views of economists
Who are just a bunch of pinko optimists.
Nor should they put too much reliance
On so called experts in climate science.

Soon the mines will close and the shops will shut
It will even affect the Pizza Hut.
No more takeaways and no more lattes
No more chocolates or fois gras pates.

So much hardship for the diligent
To make life easy for the indigent!
She’ll rob citizens with aspirations
To give to those in lowly occupations.

That’s why Abbott will give this tax the knife.
On that he’s gambling his political life.
This means if Gillard wins he’ll lose his job
Then he too would have real cause to sob.

Why can’t someone tell him, “No worries mate!
Cheer up! Look at our employment rate!
Those jobs you’ve shown on tele you can do,
They’ll attract an offer, just right for you.”

“We’ve watched you mix cement and dish out shit,
Demonstrating to us you’re so bloody fit.
For a guy like you it’ll be a doddle
To get casual work as an art school model.”

But this is a man whom nothing daunts.
Anger, strife and tears all meet his wants.
He needs chaos, riots, even a bullet dodged.
It’s all her fault! How dare she have what should be his – The Lodge.

NOTES: This is a wry attempt not to cry about politics this week when despite an upbeat and well received presentation of the new Pricing Carbon policy on Sunday, as well as brilliant performances since by Julia Gillard on the ABC’s Q&A program, on Channel 10’s 7pm Project and at the National Press Club she still doesn’t seem to get the credit she deserves. All the time Tony Abbott has continued with the Great Big New Tax scare campaign, with no reference being made in the media about his impact on national consumer confidence figures which are of real concern to retailers and business generally. Publication of the government’s Pricing Carbon policy has been well received by economists and environmentalists but the national mood of doubt about its impact and dislike for the Prime Minister continue to be headlined by the media.

Community meetings and shopping centre walkabouts are now marked by unpleasant confrontations. There are threats of violence towards politicians and climate scientists. Talk-back radio is full of complaints from disgruntled callers expresssing doom and gloom and a fear of losing their jobs and that the cost of living will escalate. All this despite assurances from Treasury modelling showing a strong future for industry and compensation, tax relief, pension increases and the like to deal with the transition to the new clean energy economy. Possibly ten per cent of our wealthiest citizens could find themselves $500 p.a. worse off, i.e. less than ten dollars a week, if they don’t do a few simple things about energy saving like turning off lights, TVs and radios when not in use or driving their cars less often. Tony Abbott has declared this to be ‘class war’ on aspirational members of the community! All this in a country with the one of the highest standards of living in the world and possibly the strongest and most debt free economy. All this crying poor as an excuse for not doing something to clean up pollution in the atmosphere to which we have contributed more than our fair share! We have been the worst polluters. It’s time we cleaned up a bit after ourselves.

Best commentary I’ve read on this and an inspiration for this pome is a fiercely forthright article by Geoff Lemon titled $10? Feeling the pain? Carbon class war? You must be joking! which says it all, really.

COMMENTS:

Feral Skeleton,    15/07/11   PatriciaWA,    Your pomes just get better and better every day. Please don’t ever stop. They brighten up a very dark world of politics, which has even had David Horton despairing.

Ad Astra,     15/07/11,    Patricia WA, Thanks for your delightful pome.

Talk Turkey,    15/07/11,    PatriciaWA wrote in her latest pome (Which might lay claim to being her greatest pome)
“No more takeaways and no more lattes
No more chocolates or fois gras pates.” 

Patricia Patricia
Your rhymes are delicia!
But better still ish yer
Pomeses’ nutricia:
So Patricia we wish ya
Success wiv ya missia
May Fates’ fancies bliss ya!
Here’s a cyber-space Kiss ya!

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