"All they will call them…"

John Tomlinson

People keep coming to my country.

The First Peoples arrived first.

Then soldiers and sailors

thieves and blackmailers.

Next we let into our fold

Yanks and Chinks

who came for gold.

After World War II we imported

Dagos, Wogs

odds and sods

five quid Poms,

pimps and toms.

Off we went with Uncle Sam

dropping agent orange and

napalm

the length and breath of

Vietnam.

We had boat people arrive

many of them hardly alive.

The latest arrivals, we are told,

are queue jumpers, not proper refugees.

They are from the Middle East

the very people we want least.

Ruddock's job is to get it sorted.

They, he says, should be deported.

The army calls them

Suspected unlawful non-citizens

S.N.U.C.S for short

Why are they called that do you suppose?

Do they have a nasty effect on your nose?

The Government attempts to apportion blame

they'll do anything to hide their shame.

They have decreased our foreign aid,

exported weapons Australian made.

They claim we want full global trade

but, refugees should stay.

Stay where they are made.


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