In 2007 by the colonial calendar commands

were given from afar.

Suspend the Racial Discrimination Act

for Aborigines –

they can’t handle their rights anyway.

Troops marched in.

Then – Alpurrurulam, Anmatjere,

Bathurst Island, Bulman, Echo Island,

Gapuwiyak, Gove Peninsula, Gunbalanya,

Haasts Bluff, Hermansberg, Imanpa,

Jay Creek, Kaltukajara, Kintore, Ltyentye,

Maningrida, Melville Island, Mirrngadja,

Mount Theo, Mutitjulu, Numbulwar,

Palumpa, Papunya, Ramingining, Titjikala,

Tjunti, Utopia, Wadeye, Wurrumiyanga,

Yarralin, Yirrkala and Yuendumu

all came under the dictatorship

of a remote community on Capital Hill

called Canberra.