My choice

Isn’t it time to stop almost a decade of lip service
Paid to the things that truly matter
And give a go to those with the heartfelt belief and desire
To take this wonderful country forward
To make it a better place for everyone
There’s a simple reason that Australia is a global laughingstock
When it comes to action on climate change
The government collectively is a net climate-change denier
Trickling out with lofty statements
Action that meets the approval of the deniers
That is driven only by political imperatives
What a joke
There is a simple reason that our indigenous people
Continue to languish as second-class citizens
The government is too elitist, too self-centred, too white male dominated
To reach down with its heart and bring up our first nation’s people
To stand side by side with pride, with affection
To admit, by truth telling, the manifold wrongs perpetrated on them
There is also a simple reason that the government was forced to borrow so much
To keep the economy afloat for so long after covid-19 ground the country to a halt
It botched the supply of vaccines
By dragging its heels, backing the wrong horse
If the vaccination program had begun earlier
We’d have opened up again sooner
Simple as that
Why is anyone even contemplating
Giving this government another term
Beats me