That’s not the way it’s got to be
There should be jobs for you and me
Hiring not firing should be the master plan
The workers shouldn’t have to pay
Just to keep the boss at bay
The world shouldn’t turn just to please a wealthy man

I don’t like Keating, I didn’t like Hawke
All they bloody did was talk
And fight with each other while the country went to pot
The Labour party doesn’t seem
To know what the word labour means
Retrenchment and recession
They are now the workers’ lot

We’ve got John Howard for a year or three
Captain mediocrity
Cutting back on welfare and the poor old ABC
Costello, Reith and Vanstone too
And a Labour rat to spice the brew
Senate rat or rationalist they’re no friends to you or me

In NSW we’ve got Bob Carr
More like a Liberal every hour
Fighting with his workers, nurses, teachers and police
Who said the DLP was dead?
The Labour right lifts up his head
He’s just a Labour squatter
And were cockies on his lease

Victoria ran under Kennett’s rules
Closing down the government schools
Sacking public servants and stealing their back pay
Victoria is on the dole
And Kennett thought he was on a roll
If you want to help the workers mate there is a better way

Economic rationalism, now there’s another sacred cow
Sane as scientology, and as fallible as the pope
I don’t like trickle-down, y’see
No money trickles down to me
Meanwhile me wages goes on trickling up like smoke