1970

By | 1 February 2020

‘when the sale of kangaroo meat for human consumption was still illegal’
my parents lived in Bathurst and ate wild asparagus
Australia’s national anthem was God save the _____
and ‘The Kangaroo Industries Association of Australia formed’.

My parents lived in Bathurst and ate wild asparagus
an abortion inquiry was held in Victoria
and ‘The Kangaroo Industries Association of Australia formed’
Nancy Cushing in ‘To Eat or Not to Eat Kangaroo’ notes.

An abortion inquiry was held in Victoria
‘It was Proddies versus Catholics,’ Phillip Adams said to Iola Mathews.
(Nancy Cushing in ‘To eat or Not to Eat Kangaroo’ notes
‘The Kangaroo Kookery Book of 1932 portrayed kangaroos’)

‘It was Proddies versus Catholics,’ Phillip Adams said to Iola Mathews
not unlike how my Mum and Aunty Anne loved to reminisce.
‘The Kangaroo Kookery Book of 1932 portrayed kangaroos
as a nuclear family in a suburban kitchen.’

Not unlike how my Mum and Aunty Anne loved to reminisce
somewhat anachronistically
‘as a nuclear family in a suburban kitchen’
I remember the consent form in Mum’s top drawer.

Somewhat anachronistically
‘when the sale of kangaroo meat for human consumption was still illegal’
I remember the consent form in Mum’s top drawer.
Australia’s national anthem was God save the _____


References:
Iola Mathews on Late Night Live
To Eat or Not to Eat Kangaroo: Bargaining over Food Choice in the Anthropocene

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