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POEMS FOR THE CITIZENSHIP SEVEN Last year, Australian politics was caught in the grip of, if not a Constitutional crisis, then at least a Constitutional debacle as Parliamentarian after Parliamentarian found themselves on the wrong side of the “dual citizenship” provision of Section 44. While a new wave of politicians have been implicated in the saga, constitutional law expert Stephen McDonald of Hanson Chambers has captured the drama, farce, tragedy and triumph that surrounded the first seven to be referred to the High Court, otherwise known as the “Citizenship 7”. Please enjoy Mr McDonald’s poetic odes to this infamous gang. 24 THE BULLETIN February 2018
CITIZENSHIP 7 POEMS IT IS WITH A HEAVY HEAR THAT I AM FORCED TO RESIGN — A VILLANELLE Senator Larissa Waters By S A McDonald It is with a heavy heart that I am forced to resign In this, the winter of the Greens’ discontent I’ve done the honourable thing, haven’t I? Conceived in the shade of a North American pine My parents brought me home from Canada, barely nascent It is with a heavy heart that I am forced to resign I’ve fought all my adult life to protect sea and sky The first to breastfeed in the Commonwealth Parliament I’ve done the honourable thing, haven’t I? Yet there’s much left to do: the Adani mine Gender equality and defending the environment It is with a heavy heart that I am forced to resign The effect of section 44 is surely to disqualify Though the Attorney submits that was never the intent I’ve done the honourable thing … haven’t I? It is with a heavy heart that I am forced to resign I’ve done the honourable thing, haven’t I? ODE ON A GRECIAN POLITICIAN Senator Nick Xenophon By S A McDonald Thou ne’er defeated prince of politics Thou princ’pl’d pragmatist of South Australia For thy State thy very neck thou risked To hold the balance of pow’r throughout Australia You began as SA’s No Pokies MP Thy re-election time and time again And the polls which constantly reflect Thy growing popularity All the more remarkable given Poker Machine numbers remain unchecked But who are they who falsely now accuse? Who see in thee a touch of Britishness? Those rogues who now implore thee to recuse Thyself from further Parliament’ry business? Are thee with thine home State so smitten As to resign before the case be even heard? Does thy faith in counsel waver, then, or what? Thou hast no right of abode in mother Britain And to no foreign sovereign gave thy word Whatever be a BOC, a subject or citizen ’tis not! LAMENT FOR FIONA NASH (IN THE STYLE OF ROBERT BURNS) Senator Fiona Nash By S A McDonald A guid Scots lad a-walkin’ gaed An’ splored in yonder thrissle Then hooked a train to London an’ A cantie spring did whissle For swith to fin’ a wife were he An’ fin’ yin, aye, he did A bit lassie from Sydney toun In Essex they were wed This bonnie lass from New Sooth Wales Two dochters did she bear Afore they visited Cronulla And decided tae live there Anither bairn was born tae thaim But she was barely aught Whan her parents, they did sinder: For they’d had a donsie faught For this wee thing Fiona Her daddie ceased tae fen Her vauntie lallan ancestry Soon passed ayont her ken She married Nash, a crofter An’ became a politician Than a chieftain o’ her pairtie Wi’ ne’er a thocht of Britain Till the deemsters o’ Austrailae In thair judgment, tae her fash Annoonce “five are disqualified Including Fiona Nash” But dinnae be ower angry, Ye mustn’t loss your chear Ye shan’t hae lang tae wai’, m’ lass An election’ll soon be here HAIKU Senator Malcolm Roberts By S A McDonald Of Welsh parentage A natural born Indian Whatever that means A British subject Tossed on the tide of history An Australian Am I still British? Dot gov dot uk Sydney I choose to believe February 2018 THE BULLETIN 25
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