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“TJ, we’re in the shit. We had it in the bag, but they’ve let the cat out. He’s got ten years behind him and an army of reactionary brainthugs. It was all going to be so simple. What we wanted was a fair shake, an australia for us. We were tearing down the iron Curtin, the Menzies Frenzy. It’s all fucking too much. I was fresh out of Queensland, you can relate. We didn’t know our arses from our elbows. Is that the expression? Fuck me, we were young. We were so damn young. What we need is a final push, one last effort before we keel over and cark it. Talk to your people. Talk to the people.”
Kevin Rudd, on Voicemail to TJ Cheen, 30 October, 2007

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do you remember?
all the children swimming in the ocean
down around the north of Australia
‘cause they had nowhere else to go

do you remember?
all the people
left out of a job
by so called work choices
they didn’t have the choice to work at all

that’s the shit that we grew up with
that’s the shit that we grew up with
that’s the shit that we grew up with
that’s the shit that we threw up with
whoa-oh whoa-oh

do you remember?
how they mined the blue sky
so it had no tears left to rain
they wouldn’t stop til all the rivers ran dry

do you remember?
how our calls for justice
rang loose on deaf ears
as thousands starved
on the march from darwin to hope

there’s a picture
of a smiling little boy
on a mantlepiece
on the main street of lismore
not a care in his eyes

how could he know
that darkness lived
seven hours away
in old kirribilli
i’ll tell you, cause that boy
he was me

that’s the shit that we grew up with
that’s the shit that we grew up with
that’s the shit that we grew up with
that’s the shit that we threw up with
whoa-oh whoa-oh

that’s the shit that we grew up with
that’s the shit that we grew up with
that’s the shit that we grew up with
that’s the shit that we threw up with
whoa-oh whoa-oh

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from All Tip, No Iceberg, released October 8, 2014

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Australia’s first Communist band since Men At Work, the Southend Rainbows have taken the barren Urals of Australian music and reforested them into a blooming pleasure garden.

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