Mal Brough

First published Al-Moharer 30/5/2006 Vol. 243
http://www.al-moharer.net/mohhtm/tomlinson243b.htm

also published Union Songs 16/6/2006
http://unionsong.com/u366.html

also published in the National Indigenous Times 5th September 2006 http://www.nit.com.au/TheArts/story.aspx?id=7181

Who wants to be a hooligan
when you can be a fool again?
Why would you be a ruffian
when you can be a Broughian?

Never have to think things through.
Just claim that your ideas are new,
that you are the first to see it true
and plagiarise what others knew.

You won’t ever have to lift the veil.
Nor ever ask why some things fail.
Just say that it’s beyond the pale
and you have found the holy grail.

Aborigines are the ones to blame
and though it is an awful shame
that you alone can light the flame
and in the heat will anguish tame.

Say that the Land Rights cause is lost
and you’ve counted up the cost,
you’ve spoken to the Holy Ghost
and now it’s time to eat the host.

Ideas come and concepts go
just a part of the ebb and flow,
some never ask why it is so,
but their culture has to go.

It was not invasion but settlement
white civilisation – heaven sent
it could be a lasting monument
if Aborigines would just repent.

Who wants to be a hooligan
when you can be a fool again?
Why would you be a ruffian
when you can be a Broughian?