En Passant

  Barnaby Joyce’s High Court expulsion from Parliament is just a byproduct of the Constitution’s racist Section 44, says John Passant in Independent Australia

I did nothing today Because I am lazy So the busybodies say Yet Marx proclaims The joys of laziness Drive us to find Better ways to do things Without labour And all the rotten things That flow from that Under capitalism For workers Like unemployment And for the bosses Falling profit rates I did nothing […]

It is only a matter of time till Malcolm Turnbull is replaced as leader. The question is, who will replace him?  My thoughts, in Independent Australia.

  Old white men dominate our news, our economy, our politics and our lives. Harvey Weinstein is but the latest example of rich white male ruling-class overlordship. Me in Independent Australia today. Weinstein exercised his power in society to prey on women. He could only do so – and go unchallenged for decades – because […]

Farewell young man – a poem prompted by the death of a young Aboriginal man in Kalgoorlie in August 2016. In the blacklight dark That is my country White men suit Themselves to rule Shining in their world Of fading fools While young boys lie Hooded in our prisons And boys on bikes die From […]

The chanters I have retreated Not to the mountains But to the conurbation That mass of humanity Spreading itself across the land And the sea We cannot forget the sea For it does not forget us Or those Who wave the tide away Which is what we all do Do we not? When reality imposes […]

Nick Xenophon is a self-interested show pony, who may win votes in South Australia but will never fix anything, says John Passant in Independent Australia.

Sport is a reflection of society and attempting to suppress a song about love is a very political move, I write in Independent Australia.