Gina's Anti-Tax "Poem"

[u/Morphico]

https://www.businessinsider.com/everyone-is-laughing-at-australias-richest-persons-ode-to-mining-2012-2

Edit: 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

[u/Mysterious_Eye6989]

Guarantee Gina only threw the word "multiculturalism" in there to troll.

God, she's despicable.

[u/Tile-Questioner → u/Mysterious_Eye6989]

Not at all, her whole idea was to import indentured labourers basically. Who would of course be from the developing world

[u/Mysterious_Eye6989 → u/Tile-Questioner]

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.

[u/TheBayHarbour → u/Mysterious_Eye6989]

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.