“I didn’t know!”

 

“I didn’t know!”

 

Don’t get me wrong

In a Two Party preferred system 

I have no choice but to give preferences to Labor

The Coalition are scum

But Jacinta Allen, Victorian Premier

Claimed in a Truth Telling Commission that she never knew about massacres

Of Indigenous people in the state

She’d never looked up

The history of her country

The history of the state she leads

She’s Premier!

She leads a department that ‘manages Indigenous affairs’

We are currently in the process of negotiating a Treaty

What did she think happened to all the Aboriginal people?!

They went up to live up the Magic Faraway Tree?

“No one told me!”

No one ever told me either

I fuckin researched

It was really easy

Took 10 minutes

There’s this new thing called the Internet

& you search stuff up

Like History

A subject no longer taught in many schools past year 7

I deduced a lot from observing the place

& how allergic we are of looking at ourselves

Man it’s like peanuts

Bring me the epi-pen!

Make sure it hasn’t passed its used by date

No serving of chocolate at school!

Anyway, Indigenous Australia isn’t ‘trending’ at the moment

As usual we’ve returned to ignoring

All forgotten

Short Memories

Fuckin disgrace!

You don’t need to be ‘told’ everything

You do some work yourself

You have a responsibility to know about where you live

Anyway, kids

Homework is to investigate your home!

From before the white man

To today

Do some thinking

Allen

Liar

Coz she’s worried about paying up compensation

& too bloody right she should pay

The Stolen Generations got mere words

& it’s always mere words 

Now thanks to Disinformative Racists like the IPA’s Andrew Bolt

Middle Australians are ‘frightened of losing their homes’

Which planet do we live on people?!

Have you listened to anything Indigenous elders are talking about?

& how almost superhumanly conciliatory they are?

Have you read the Uluṟu Statement from the Heart?

Look at the way of the world

& who’s running it

& how in denial the white man

Do you really think that would ever happen?!

With banks, mining companies, NewsCorp & the American military owning government 

That’s hysteria!

Paranoia 

Not in a pink fit would the Indigenous ever be advantaged by a Colonial Government

Indigenous people are 20 times more likely to serve time in prison 

So we, like she, pretend we don’t know

Has she ever been to a country town?

Look at the names of the local sites

Hanging Rock!

Hmm!

& listened to the way people talk?

No?

It’s like pretending you still believe in Santa Claus

So you get better presents

Bad Faith

Australia

Land of evils committed

Massacres galore

Genocide 

& eyes turned blind

100% backed by the law

& smallpox

Who says wasn’t deliberate

Read some history people

‘Binge’ The First Australians series

It’s on SBS

You can still get your Menulog

Learn something about where you live

A holiday to Uluṟu ain't all there is

Here where I stand, where you stand or sit

"A child was born here"

(To borrow from Archie Roach)

& you know what?

A child was probably killed too

 

 

Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.