Stop Them Boats

The silly season’s over and we’ve counted the last votes

But a long-asked question still remains please stop the bloody boats

Boats of money leaving our shores, tax free by the day

While both sides of politics refuse to make the bastards pay

Them being multinational companies by various degrees

Who rape our rare resources and take the profit overseas?

They threaten to ‘shut it down’ if we were tax them at all

Hey “leave you greedy wankers” piss off then - it’s your call

We’ll keep hold of our raw materials - iron ore, our gold and coal

Mine it ourselves and make more money and leave a smaller hole

We have facilities, good transport and it’s safe, so ain’t it fair

That if a corporation mines here that they pay a decent share

Then all of us will benefit with jobs, health, education as well

The deficit would be history and even foreign debt gone - hell

Those money filled boats gone forever, development on shore

We’d all be so much better off and could be the Lucky Country once more

John Mason 3/06/19