Page 4149 - Week 14 - Wednesday, 23 October 1991

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arms, to our view, at least for the Residents Rally. We will press on with trying to get justice and we will press on to represent the community interest. Our Bill program will survive. We will not be able to provide sufficient explanatory memoranda. Our research will be curtailed. But we will expand our program in the November session and we will seek to produce real change and set the agenda for the next election. The Labor Party's approach to this issue is part of their coalition with the Liberal Party, and I trust that it will work against them at the next election.

I thank those who have supported the Bill in principle and I want to conclude by reading something from Andrew Barton Paterson. It is A Bushman's Song, the one that starts, "I am travelling down the Castlereagh"; but I will cut it short. I say this in relation to party machines and those who vote in that context. He wrote:

It was shift, boys, shift, for there wasn't the slightest doubt

It was time to make a shift with the leprosy about.

So I saddled up my horses, and I whistled to my dog,

And I left his scabby station at the old jig-jog.

I went to Illawarra, where my brother's got a farm,

He has to ask his landlord's leave before he lifts his arm;

The landlord owns the country-side - man, woman, dog, and cat -

I am talking about duopoly, of course -

They haven't the cheek to dare to speak without they touch their hat.

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So, it's shift, boys, shift, for there isn't the slightest doubt

We've got to make a shift to the stations further out -

I am referring to the move to Independents there, and I am referring to some of you who are making a conscienceless vote -

The packhorse runs behind us, for he follows like a dog,

And we cross a lot of country at the old jig-jog.

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