By John Granger
Sky blue … earth brown … yellow, red
Timeless land … alive and dead
Indigenous eyes lock on Botany Bay
For evermore, a change of way
Convicts in chains … a nation’s seed
Gold rush, fortunes … hope and greed
Federation … convoluted
‘Rule Britannia’… part-diluted
Conscription and the First World War
‘Fallen’ youth on Turkish shore
The Great Depression …tears and pain
Get through that, then War again
‘Bob’s yer Uncle’ – it seemed forever
Television – the world seemed clever
Vietnam and guilty doubt
Gough – ‘It’s Time’ and Kerr – ‘Time Out’
Now multi-culture, COVID and financial scrimmage
Smart phones, egos and a search for image.