Jumping at gay shadows

Issue 

The budget couldn't fudge it,
the war has left our senses dazed;
and his welfare policies
are dredged from ancient days.

Destroying health by stealth,
robbing families blind;
those who want to vote for him
must be out of their tiny mind.

The Timorese are struggling,
enduring relentless toil,
a dollar a day is their average pay,
and yet he steals their oil.

He detains the children,
which shocks the world it's said,
he covers up the SIEV X
ignoring the hundreds dead.

Indigenous health is a scandal,
it shames this mighty land,
he won't say he's sorry,
he just doesn't understand.

Now it's gay marriage,
the shadow on the wall,
he'll use a sledge to drive the wedge
I hope it leads to his downfall.

John Tomlinson

From Green Left Weekly, July 7, 2004.
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