Earlier this week, 'Kevin Andrews', a writer at 'satirical' online newspaper the Burdekin Herald, wrote a story about a fundraiser New Matilda launched recently to hire an Aboriginal cadet for our newsroom.

Our campaign appears to have 'struck a nerve' with 'Kevin', who launched his own fundraising campaign for the Burdekin Herald to 'buy their own Aboriginal', because 'Aboriginals are cool'.

The side splitting satire included such zingers as, "We think that a black guy will help the Herald deliver cutting edge Aboriginal news to our readers. Because if we are going to be serious about reporting on Aboriginal affairs, there is no better way to do it than hire a white middle class Aboriginal."

Which is not so much satire, rather just bare-faced racism parading as satire.

So we decided we wanted to 'strike a nerve' as well... or more specifically, sever a nerve, and a few other bits and pieces as well.

If we raise $10,000,000 in a week, we're going to hire the world's best micro-surgeon and fly him or her all the way from wherever she or he lives, to perform a vasectomy on 'Kevin Andrews'.

This way, Kevin won't be able to breed, and pass on his 'racist genes' to children.

In short, this is a fundraiser for all of humanity, by ridding the world of at least one future racist.

The only real obstacle to success that we can see with this campaign, is an unwillingness on the part of 'Kevin Andrews' to have a vasectomy performed on him.

We plan to overcome this with the use of alcohol, which we're reliably advised 'Kevin' is rather partial too.  

The other challenge we can see is raising $10 million dollars in less than a week. This, we expect, may be difficult, particularly considering this is not a real fundraiser.

However, if by some freak of nature, we do raise the funds in the allotted time, we'll donate them all to [insert charity of your choice] or we'll refund your cash. Or you can ask us to keep it, and employ more Aboriginal journalists.