Ve have vays of making you sing!
John Howard’s Liberal Party recently announced its plan to have it so that public schools who do not display the Australian flag and do not enlist their children to mindnumbingly chant their allegiance to the national anthem will not receive equal funding.
This is a Government who wants to punish our children for the actions of administrators. This is a man who thinks pieces of material and flagpoles should be higher educational priorities than resources for the classroom. Howard wants to strip away our kids’ educational rights because of the Liberal Party’s outdated, “don’t question the Government” notion of patriotism.
Yet I feel I can reach a compromise position. In fact I am going to go stronger than Howard. The second verse of AAF was recently excised. I want it reinstated and I want to add two extra verses to Advance Australia Fair. I provide all four verses here for you. If you don’t know the tune, (and you should by now, didn't you watch the Olympics? We kicked bottom) they fit just as well to Auld Lang Syne (with a slight modification that you need to make the verses a couple of lines longer).
Australians all let us rejoice
For we are young and free
We’ve golden soil
and wealth for toil
Our home is girt by sea
Our land abounds in nature’s gifts
of beauty rich and rare
In history’s page, lete every stage
Advance Australia Fair
In joyful strains now let us sing
Advance Australia Fair
With the Liberals I cannot rejoice
But Iraq is so-called free
They’ve golden oil
and wealth for toil
We’ll exploit it, wait and see
There’s been a major political shift
since the Howard Costello pair
If there’s one thing you can say about em
It’s that they’re not fair
In joyful strains now let us sing
Time to kick em out of there
Beneath our radiant Southern Cross
We’ll toil with hearts and hands
to make this Commonwealth of ours
renowned of all the lands
For those who’ve come across the seas
We’ve boundless plains to share
With courage let us all combine
to Advance Australia Fair
In joyful strains now let us sing
Advance Australia Fair
Tony Abbott made me very cross
When he tried to get the pill banned
and also when he said a marriage
is only a woman and a man
For those who’ve come across the seas
Well you had best beware
We’ll throw you in a prison and
we’ll strip your sanity bare
With courage let us all combine
to kick Howard out of there!
Heaven forbid that we keep singin’
Advance Australia Fair-skinned