She'll Be Right

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We gave the kids asbestos walls and called it progress We built the whole suburb on a flood plain, mate We handed out thalidomide to pregnant mothers Then shrugged and said the paperwork was great We sold the farms to fix the farms that needed fixing We locked the refugees in the middle of the sea We ran a war on drugs that made the drugs more expensive And wondered why it wasn't working — couldn't see But nobody resigned Nobody did time We just held a royal commission And everything was fine She'll be right, she'll be right Just don't look too hard at the night She'll be right, she'll be right We'll review it in the light Of a government report That nobody will read She'll be right She'll be right Indeed We had a prime minister vanish in the ocean We replaced him with six more in seven years We watched the river system slowly turn to nothing And opened up another mine to calm our fears We built a fast train that was just a normal train We deregulated everything including trust We put a flag on the moon — no wait, that wasn't us But we did invent the wine bag, so adjust But nobody resigned Nobody did time We held another summit And everything was fine She'll be right, she'll be right Just don't look too hard at the night She'll be right, she'll be right We'll review it in the light Of a government report That nobody will read She'll be right She'll be right Indeed And still we love this place This wide ridiculous place The reef, the dust, the flies The absolute disregard for Reasonable advice We'll burn it down Rebuild it wrong Knock off at three And write a song We put a woman on the fifty dollar note eventually We said sorry — took us till two thousand and eight We're working on the other things, the list is very long now But someone's put a freeze on the debate She'll be right, she'll be right Just don't look too hard at the night She'll be right, she'll be right We'll review it in the light Of a government report That nobody will read She'll be right ...results expected by 2031. Pending funding. Subject to change. She'll be right.