Political comment in haiku form

​Vagrants rummage
Through the dustbin of history
Find only slogans

Feeling unlucky?
Throw hard currency into 
Potable water

In offshore accounts
Capital accumulates
​Trickle-down be dammned

Test your self knowledge
An act of recognition
It can't be too hard

Australia Day
The more successful of our
Lauded invasions

Spill

Deserted Hill's Hoist
Pair of speedos hanging limp
From their own petard

Epitomising 
The banality or evil
The term 'price signal'

Enough of wind farms
Back to watching footballers
Break each other's arms

Call it gospel truth
There wouldn't be no Christmas
Without a census

Climate change

Polarization
Denial or evidence
​The future on ice

As the levels rise
Those who know no principle
Wade in still waters

The global zeitgeist
Interweb tarantulas
​Churn Al-Gore-Rhythms

Walls of Jericho
Polite Israeli faces
 A muted howling

Axe the carbon tax
Let the Senate swill be done
No future for you

Liberate ourselves
From futile cause and effect
Drone, bomb, bring it on

35th of May

Light a long candle
Place no trust in search engines
Remember the tanks

Eco Casino
For the Great Barrier Reef
I don't like the odds

Biennale ends
The age of untitled-ment
Shut up and install

Botany locals
Counting tall ship arrivals
Yell 'f@ck off, we're full'

ANZACs run aground
In the wrong curriculum
Start digging trenches

Our wizards of Oz
Bearded in their ivory
Fearing extinction

Family values
Something to represent
Long as you're winning

Order 66!
It's Star Wars all over again
Trump is Palpatine

Come in Spinner
Labor's Lead in Macquarie
Just hit sixty-two

Behind the paywall 
Gaffes recontextualised
​Brexit Halloween

Pell
Tabloid opiniions
Defending child molesters
The Hypocrisy
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Integration now
Move to the front of the bus
​Rosa Park your ass

Arise, we workers
From your slumbers and arise
​Prisoners of want

Tous à la Bastille
Liberté, égalité
Pas d'austérité

Playing the Trump card
Future presidents should know
How to dog-whistle

Remember Aylan
If all of us shed a tear
​Mine were tears of rage

Europe's solution
Offshore processing centres
​In Australia

Avenge the gore that
Flecked the streets of Baltimore
Be the battle queen

Reza Berati
Came to us for protection
Killed under our roof

Voted for Abbott?
Time to ask for forgiveness
​Permission denied

When dark closes in 
Fear is walking home alone
Tag. I'll ride with you

Right to be bigots
Kiss my "I'm not racist but"
Whimsical wordplay

Blow the dog whistle
How long before we all get
A prick up the ears?

Tell me, at what point
Does fallacious security
Become a bomb scare?

Arming moderates
Hand out guns labelled "use
in moderation"

Tell them in the camps
Someday Allied troops will come
Hitler's on the run

They shot Osama
And Medical volunteers
Took one for the team

Wildfire politics
Straw men burning everywhere
Indirect action

Smokescreen media
Praise local heroism
My home town burning

Freedom's keeper's watch 
Sennacharib in the fold
Hoarse from crying wolf

Tell Edward Snowden
And all them whistle blowers
Go back to Russia

Bradley Manning's leaks
Were 'aiding the enemy'
Who were they again?

​Plains of Philippi
Anthony cremates Brutus
Then his pants catch fire

Coming down the stairs
Bananas in pyjamas
This time they were pushed

Our wizards of Oz
Bearded in their ivory
Fearing extinction

2019 
Unopened bottles
Clutching of franking credits
So much for data

Men Speaking in tongues
Joined at the hip pocket nerve
As the waters rise

Prelude to the rise
Of global temperatures
The fall of leaders
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IWD

Crunch of broken glass
International women
Get your day started

Groucho, join the club
It's Cultural Marxism
Or barbarism

This Fourth of July
Rising global temperatures
​Are beating the drum

Ten years since Iraq
Decade of mass destruction
​Mission accomplished

It's the people's right
Piss on the Prime Minster
If he's on fire

Only the people 
Can knife the Prime Minister
We're right behind you

Democratic spill
Only the Prime Minister
Can fire the people

Tagged! To coin a phrase
Electronic graffit
I reverse my cap

I pity Ahmed
Uniformed minority
Who stood and waited

Gender December
Ministry of women
Selling barbie dolls

The Cold war was an
American invention
From start to finish


Devolution

Flodden, Culloden
In keeping with tradition
the scots lose again

Saltire's gone? Let's sell
Union Jacks for parts? Who wants
​The Saint Patrick's cross?

Bergdahl turned injun?
Like Kevin Costner did 
In Dances with Wolves?

On the Eastern Front
Post-Soviet arsenals
Play Chicken Kiev

What's in the pipeline
Ras-Putin's kicking Europe 
​In the breadbasket

Deterrence
Saving hypothetical lives
Spending millions

Airline tragedy
Flags another disaster
Trash in the Ocean

Culture World War Two
Expect higher casualties 
But the same outcome

​Intensity: Dreams
Deferred indefinitley
In tent cities

Imperial masters
Watching conflicts in lost lands
Proferring weapons

Prayers for Londoners
Our teachers and peacemakers
When hate walks the streets

There would be fewer
Massacres by them Giraffes
​If we were all armed

Harmony Day

Racist History 
Colours that I never wear
Diminished triads

Up Capital Hill
By that security fence
Waiting for Skyfire
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