‘Stralia All Over

It’s either th’ bloody Cockatoo raid or Macca’s 

ABC radio morning show - ‘Australia All Over’ 

that got me goin’ agh; - y’d never mistake Ian

McNamara’s ‘off-the-cuff’ style being ‘typically’ 

Australian until hearin’ the phone contributor’s 

tête-à-têtes of Gidday Macca, yeah ‘I’ve been 

every where’ mate, n’ I’m movin’ on today coz 

there’s free bloody beer t’ be had somewhere 

While th’ cockatoos’ raucous hullabaloo’ll fade 

this informal caucus of governing opinions on 

what and who is the real Australian continues 

to amaze - seems you’ve got to get a camper 

van n’ go see what you’re missing before the 

scene disappears - or y’ll bloody rue it mate 

To me they’re a bunch of Cockatoo campsite 

congregationalists moreso than those dinkey 

dies you meet in Sport’s Clubs bars n’ at the 

Footy games - where there’re other opinions 

than who’s the real deal Aussie or why you’d 

never care to live in bloody suburbia again 

© 10 August 2014, I. D. Carswell