A Revised National Anthem for Australia

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the most pathetic government in Australia's history (I mean, really, how you can keep a straight face sending troops to Iraq while funding the Iraqi regime via the AWB and locking up those who flee the chaos and seek asylum with no legal recourse is quite beyond me), I hereby present a revised national anthem in Little Johnny's honour. Just in time for the happily frequent renditions at the Commonwealth Games:

"Advance Whose Skin Is Fair"

by James Ross

Australians all let us rejoice
For we are rich and white
With golden soil and lust for oil
We reckon she'll be right
Our land abounds in nature's gifts
We've never learned to share
In history's page let every stage
Advance whose skin is fair

Beneath our radiant southern cross
We'll toil with hearts and hands
To make sure noone different
Sets foot upon our lands
For those who come across the sea
We've prison cells to spare
With courage let us all combine to
advance whose skin is fair
In joyful strains then let us sing
advance whose skin is fair

Copyright © 2006 James Ross. All Rights Reserved. Of course. This machine kills fascists.

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