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The present research investigates the use of Achille Mbembe's notion of necropolitics in Peter Porter's poems Your Attention Please and Competition is Healthy. Through qualitative research of Australian history and literature, it investigates Porter's critique of the nexus of power, mortality, and society systems. Necropolitics, which examines sovereign powers' influence over life and death, gives a prism through which to view Porter's work on colonial exploitation, nuclear politics, and the fragility of human existence. The study focusses on Porter's use of irony, vivid imagery, and intertextual references to emphasize the dehumanizing impacts of governmental control and societal inequality. In Your Attention Please, the bureaucratic notice of a nuclear strike contrasts ordinary rituals with existential dread, illustrating the normalization of mortality in global dynamics. Similarly, Competition is Healthy criticises the commodification of human beings, societal hierarchies, and the degradation of moral norms in colonial and capitalist societies. This study uses necropolitics and poetic analysis to explore the long-term impact of colonial brutality and political hegemony on Australian identity and literature. Porter's work, which is grounded in both German and Australian cultures, emerges as a striking commentary on the human condition within the intricacies of modern geopolitics.