Orstrilia Day

This is not about theatre, but I am staggering in shock and dismay. Yes, I just read a poem by the inimitable (I hope) Patrick McCauley. It's the Australia Day Poem, prominently published to celebrate our national holiday in the Australian, our national broadsheet. It's written with the prosodical elan and metaphorical flair of a three-legged cat on crack cocaine, but that's not all: it's a