Poem: Instructions to the Little Aussie Battler

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Work harder.
Make someone else redundant.
This is efficiency.
Competition is our salvation.
This way we cost our betters less.
One day we'll be internationally competitive
and get paid a dollar
for a fourteen hour day.
Then we'll understand what world best practice means.
P. Tomlin

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