Hooray, Australia Day

Hooray, Australia Day.
It’s a holiday mate, where
the pollies flap their jaws
and swear we’re a great
place to live – as if we didn’t
know – and go into raptures
about Australian values.

Our PM (Johnny Howard),
bless his stumpy legs, sez
we’re all real mates – that
the notion of mateship is
what makes us stronger
than a mob drunks. And
of course he’d know.

But he’s the bloke who
now reflects we need a test
to be acceptable Aussies.
Jesus wept, is he thinking we
have to re-establish
Australia all over?

Pity is Johnny couldn’t pass
a real test to be an Aussie
anyway, for a start he’s
just a bloody Lawyer.

You’d need to be a Judge
to know who’d make a
good Australian!
© I.D. Carswell 2007-01-25