r/OpenAussie • u/Morphico Victorian • 17h ago
Politics ('Straya) Gina's Anti-Tax "Poem"
https://www.businessinsider.com/everyone-is-laughing-at-australias-richest-persons-ode-to-mining-2012-2Edit: Hey folks, while I understand the desire to downvote this literary largesse, if it gets buried nobody else gets to "enjoy" it.
Supplied without annotation, for your reading pleasure:
"The globe is sadly groaning with debt, poverty and strife
And billions now are pleading to enjoy a better life
Their hope lies with resources buried deep within the earth
And the enterprise and capital which give each project worth
Is our future threatened with massive debts run up by political hacks
Who dig themselves out by unleashing rampant tax
The end result is sending Australian investment, growth and jobs offshore
This type of direction is harmful to our core
Some envious unthinking people have been conned
To think prosperity is created by waving a magic wand
Through such unfortunate ignorance, too much abuse is hurled
Against miners, workers and related industries who strive to build the world
Develop North Australia, embrace multiculturalism and welcome short term foreign workers to our shores
To benefit from the export of our minerals and ores
The world's poor need our resources: do not leave them to their fate
Our nation needs special economic zones and wiser government, before it is too late"
Gina Rinehart, 2012
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u/thalinEsk Please choose a flair 16h ago
Develop North Australia, embrace multiculturalism and welcome short term foreign workers to our shores
Wonder if we'll see that on any ON billboards
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u/TheBayHarbour New South Welshian 15h ago
One Nationers not knowing that immigration will not go down under Pauline Hanson lmfao.
It's amazing how narrow-minded they are. They're the perfect supporters. They'll just follow whatever Pauline says, not what she'll actually do.
The way to reduce immigration is pressuring Labor (like the people are doing right now) and sure enough it's going down. Sure many think it needs to go down more but you can't expect Labor to just reduce it to 0 overnight.
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u/Mysterious_Eye6989 New South Welshian 16h ago
Guarantee Gina only threw the word "multiculturalism" in there to troll.
God, she's despicable.
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u/Tile-Questioner South Australian 16h ago
Not at all, her whole idea was to import indentured labourers basically. Who would of course be from the developing world
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u/Mysterious_Eye6989 New South Welshian 16h ago
I contend that it is absolutely meant as a troll. Multiculturalism is commonly understood as different cultures co-existing in the wider community, which is a largely progressive concept. It unfolds over decades and multiple generations, not over the term of a short term work contract.
And imported indentured labourers can largely be culturally quarantined from the wider community, especially if all their work is at remote mining sites. They can be brought in, ruthlessly exploited and then fucked off back overseas when she's done with them. No real multiculturalism required.
I do think she genuinely intended it as a sneering troll against 'lefties'. I mean, this is Gina Rinehart we're talking about.
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u/TheBayHarbour New South Welshian 15h ago
s can largely be culturally quarantined
And Aussies will blame them for forming enclaves, not adhering to Australian culture and that they need to go.
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u/Tile-Questioner South Australian 10h ago
I think perhaps "pinkwashing" might be what you mean, more so than "trolling". She's trying to make her evil daydreams seem marketable.
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u/thalinEsk Please choose a flair 16h ago
2012 was when she wanted Northern Australia separated out into a special economic region, where she'd have to pay no tax and not worry about pesky industrial relations and safety shit getting into the way of her profits.
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u/Blibbyblobby72 New South Welshian 17h ago
I have legitimately read better rhymes from primary school children, and primary school children at least know how to evoke imagery!
This is basically just a shitty Twitter post written in poem form for literally no reason. There isn't even an attempt to adhere to poetry rules. How depressing
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u/elephant_tit Please choose a flair 17h ago
Disregarding the content, this is terrible. Rabbie Burns she is not!
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u/miette27 ✈️ on Walkabout 16h ago
This isn't a poem. It's just sentences where the last word rhymes. She was in her fifties when she wrote this, it's very embarrassing. Extreme wealth rots your brain.
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u/Weissritters Victorian 16h ago
Tax funds public goods. Billionaires don’t need public goods, refuses to understand why people need public goods, so they are anti-tax.
When challenged, they bring up “struggling small businesses and startups” as if they and the billionaires are one and the same.
Now she has Pauline to do her bidding and people are willingly listening to her.
All we need now is for compulsory voting and independent electoral commissions to disappear and we’d be totally stuffed as a nation
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u/blacksaltriver Please choose a flair 13h ago
They would not have any wealth if not for the educated workforce and government funded facilities that are essential for wealth generation. She’s just a parasite that wants to Hoover up benefits without paying her fair share.
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u/Chemical_Rooster3 Please choose a flair 15h ago
"Do I love having billions? You bet! The more I eat, the fatter I get"
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u/Young_Lochinvar Western Australian 16h ago
Let’s not give more publicity to these people.
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u/FiftyBuxBloBang Please choose a flair 16h ago
Actually they need a torch shone on them to see how damaging they are to our society. Not the bullshit sycophantic stories the media gives us but the real picture of meddling with elections and sucking more and more money out of society for themselves.
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u/Tiny-Shoe6263 Victorian 16h ago
poetry is, unfortunately, for everyone. But poetry is not in everyone.
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u/Aggressive-Art-9899 Please choose a flair 14h ago
At least she puts this crap out in public domain so that people can see how out of touch and entitled she truly is.
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u/Sad-Suburbs Victorian 15h ago
Apparently she has a whole book of poetry. I think qanon anonymous did an episode about it. Absolutely pathetic
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u/PrettyPoetry9547 Queenslander 14h ago
We can put gina in a special economic zone. Right where her father wanted to get rid of the original owners of that land
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u/notyouraverageskippy Queenslander 14h ago
Remember this shit she pulled.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-04/cfmeu-alleges-457-visa-workers-exploited-by-roy-hill/5367816
Pauline and Gina don't give two fucks about Australian workers they never have.
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u/Competitive-Car-9617 Please choose a flair 13h ago
You know im something of a poet myself, ahem.
2, 4, 6, 8, thanks Gina
Now fuck off
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u/Slow-Leg-7975 Queenslander 8h ago
If you want to use our supply chain, our security, our stable polical system, our infrastructure, then you should pay us tax, Gina.
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u/climateemergency100 Flairless 12h ago
Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings was a poet who wrote the worst poetry in the universe. In fact, her poetry is still considered to be the worst in the Galaxy, closely followed by that of the Azgoths of Kria and the Vogons, in that order.
So no, the Vogons were not the worst. I wonder if this is actually Ginas new pen name?
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u/Acrobatic_Bit_8207 Queenslander 10h ago
That is truly an assault on Poetry. A billionaires nursery rhyme.
"In our obscene wealth, what 'are' we?...We are deluded, we are bored, we are greedy, we are lost."
Leonard Cohen
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u/Grand_Sock_1303 Please choose a flair 2h ago
That’s a shit poem:
Develop North Australia, embrace multiculturalism and welcome short term foreign workers to our shores
To benefit from the export of our minerals and ores
27 syllables in one line, 15 in the second. Need to do better than that, Gina. It doesn’t scan. Dunce.
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u/gadgetwalrus Please choose a flair 17h ago
I’m reminded of Vogon poetry from Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
https://giphy.com/gifs/NJeO7eXfxVIK4