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Blog Central: Danksta Downunder Danksta Downunder, a.k.a. Hamish Danks Brown of Noosa Heads, is the founding heads-and-tails of the newly emerging microstate of Danksta Downunder. This is a realm devoted to performance poetry, writing, music, experimenta and obscura.

Faster than a speeding bullet

September 6 | Hamish Brown

What's that? Up in the air! Is it absurd? Is it profane?

It must be Super Council, dedicated to brute force, injustice and the Americanned way - better known as "Schlock and Flaw"!

Super Council - faster than a rubber-stamped reform commission, stronger than the people's will, and able to pass a heap of tall building DAs in a single round.

Super Council is here to save the clueless locals from falling into the clutches of their own hands, and has a range of amazing powers to rescue the communities of Queensland from the responsibility of looking after themselves.

When not taking up the burden of carrying the people of Queensland safely into the 21st century, Super Council is disguised as the mild-mannered and on probation local rounds reporter Clerk Kant at the Courier and Curiouser Mail newspap and pulp plant.

Here, the hapless superhero shares a flimsy cubicle with the object, subject and reject of his attraction, trainee dead letter office copyperson Loess Lane, who is definitely not for U-turning into his arms, charms or incentives.

Super Council is the offspring and end-of-summer final clearance of his out-of-this-world parents: a Premier who more and more resembles Marlon Brando a la Last Tango, and a Cap'n Anna Bligh, who has a mutiny emanating from her own electoral use-by date.

Meanwhile, villainous rogue communities are conspiring to capture and overthrow Super Council, and are currently preparing competitive local council tenders for the supply of sufficient Kryptonite or its generic equivalent.

They want to bring Super Council down and out before Super Council brings them all together under his caped crusade. Hey! Just what is so C21st about wearing a cape or going on a crusade, anyway?

At the same time, what's with all the vans marked "Amalgamated Pest Control" that keep patrolling through our neighbourhoods? Which communities and their local councils are getting sprayed?

It's not mosquitoes they're after, it's not Ross River fever they're trying to eliminate, it's the dreaded democracy bug.

The Smart State (SS) storm-scooper-up-afterers just don't get it! That is to say, we know they done it but even they don't know how they done it!

The Soviet-style Local Transition Committees hardly inspire superhero feats of derring-do worthy of a Super Council. Why not superannuate the whole idea of Super Council right now before the steaming mound in front of us gets any closer to our communities!

Super Councils are not our local heroes and probably never will get their trophy on the shelves of the local club!

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