Pollies

let's have an election! that a party mirror farce!

the issues come, articulate and go to hell at last

choice is so restrictive due to groups of policy

now is time for me to tell the system I foresee

Observe a bunch in ignorance, making their routine fuss

proving that they still have skill when it comes to bluffing us

a master plan is what we need, we create and modify

with new concerns addressed in time before the year goes by

the polly's office down the road's been there for many years

but we don't expect to see him or have him dry our tears

I wonder what that office is where I see no-one go

all its windows painted out and I bet the rent's not low

maybe there's a manager of a foreign company

who only comes to visit once or twice or three

Nah it's not an oppshop where vollies forgot to come

perhaps illegal gambling or criminals on the run

it couldn't be a milk bar or else you'd see inside

same if it were macka's subway or kentucky fried

I know it must be something and have a reason for existence

I'm gunna find out my way or with cunning and persistence

well to find the answer I rang , what do these offices house?

eventually, no-one came so I thought I'd take a browse

I stuck my head around the door and surprised the lady there

'Do you have an appointment?' as she finished off her hair

'you can see the local member the month just after next

but let me know your issue and I'll prepare it in context'

'he's got so much now on his plate another and he'll choke

I'd hate to see him have his lunch and then give himself a stroke'

If he tried with seven mops and swept for half a year

do you suppose in his current state that he could get it clear

he doesn't know a hundred things perhaps not even one

you talk of walrus strategy he's eaten every one

So that is what his office was but it doesn't have to be

I'll set my new plan down for you of what I'd like to see

with the paint scraped off the windows and computers 'round the wall

where citizens like you and me can email fax or call

Politics is bland you say, real issues far and few

but the ones to be determined should be set by me and you

Go down to the office for the pink referendum form

the pink's the many issues while the white is who'll perform

and if your numbers do shine out, you've seen like many others

matters that of some portent concern Australian brothers

from all the nominated issues select a hundred as essentials

then campaigning can commence where each shows his credentials

you're not voting for an ethos or a tenuous party line

you're voting to have the issues solved which together we refine

if we have a hundred items then a hundred seats are bare

the candidates present to us in order that we may compare

then there are elections never mind which party they may be

those elected must consent to study for the key

But for police, the army, the treasury and the court

besides these institutions keep the public service short

so if you want to change things look over the issue range

which single issue candidate will change what needs to change?

vote for green or take him out or vote for party teens

vote no to drugs, pollution or yes to nicotine

vote what you believe in but have the faith to wait

til the subject's learnt completely and bandied round in wide debate

vote for land or culture or dams, aforestation

or refugees or stem cells, should they benefit the nation

vote to keep our water clear and not excess to drink it

a forest fresh clean air idea and vote your right to think it

remember that each member becomes your way to learn

his issue is his term's main work, every leaf to turn

he combines the greatest talents from the whole community

and makes reports and recommends to the house with integrity

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