‘The Project’ Protested The Tampon Tax With An Extremely Dorky Rap

On Monday the Australian Senate shot down a motion to abolish the very sexist tampon tax. Now, the hosts of The Project have tackled the issue in the only way that Australia seems to know how. That’s right fam: it’s time for another tampon rap!!

Spat by Carrie Bickmore and Fifi Box feat. Greens Senator Larissa Waters, ‘Don’t Tax My Flow’ is a deadset banger about the hypocrisy of applying the GST to tampons when items like condoms, lubricant and incontinence pads are exempt, yo.

Bickmore even offers up an alternative method of raising the revenue currently brought in by the tax. “They say they can’t touch the tax because the states need money,” she raps. “But if we sold Tassie we’d be cashed up honey!”

Weirdly, Australia has a bit of a thing for this extremely specific sub-genre of comedy hip hop. Last year the UQ Law Revue produced this extremely good parody of Macklemore’s ‘Thrift Shop’.

There’s also this Snoop Dogg parody featuring, of all people, Tony Abbott’s sister.

It is very unclear why this particular issue has inspired so many sick rhymes – although admittedly, it’s still makes more sense than making women pay GST on tampons in the first place. As Bickmore says to shadow health minister Catherine King, who appeared on the show but sadly did not participate in the rap: “Get it done. It’s 2017. It seems absolutely ridiculous that we’re having this conversation.”