βAustralia's probably never had a PM this bad,β Wil Wagner, frontman of Melbourne's Smith Street Band, told Faster Louder on January 13.
Wagner was explaining his band's latest single, succinctly titled βWipe That Shit-Eating Grin Off Your Punchable Faceβ and released with featuring the prime minister looking extra punchable with an especially shit-eating grin.
The , according to , is βa scathing attack on the Australian governmentβs treatment of asylum seekersβ.
Wagner : βEven in the last few years thereβs kind of a racist undertone, and itβs a question now I guess, are Australians racist because of Tony Abbott, or do Australians vote in Tony Abbott because theyβre racist?
βThereβs a sleazy and racist undertone to a lot of Australia that just doesnβt seem to exist anywhere else in the world, really. And knowing that half of Australia gets the Herald Sun ... itβs fucked. Itβs brainwashing. Itβs terrifying.β
On how to respond, Wagner said: βIf there was ever going to be a viable left, and people were going to properly kick off about stuff, then this is the time theyβre going to do it.β
Putting their money where their politics are, The Smith Street Band and their label, Poison City Records, will donate 100% of all digital sales (available ) of the single until the end of February to the (ASRC).
The band will also play a fundraising show on January 26 at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne, with funds going to ASRC, the Refugee Council of Australia and Oxfam. Visit the for more details.
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Video: Β The Smith Street Band - Don't Fuck With Our Dreams. .