Watershed Victoria

“Turning Off The Tap”

It never rains, it only pours
When contractors get their money-grubbing paws
On the common wealth of this once-great state
Oh, will the wastage never abate?
Not as long as John Dubbya & Company
Continue to have the outrageous effrontery
To take our taxes and haemorrhage them to
The greedy, never-sated few.

They can spot his type a mile away:
The type happy to pay and pay and pay
And say: “Look here, we’re taking action!”
Till their governments’ finances end up in traction.
And reluctantly, to stop further harm
The poor old voters hand over the farm
To people who impose economic rationalism
With all the subtlety of fascism.

There’s only one way to stop the drip:
Take the captain and crew of this ship
Truss them up with a length of cord
And throw the whole lot overboard.

Governments and corporations do crazy things that make people cry & die, but here at the happy, happy house of Watershed Vic online - we want you to smile smugly just before you get slugged paying for a desalination mega-factory you never asked for, or need …

The Victorian & Federal Governments have great trouble telling the truth about the real environmental, social and economic “effects” of chemical and coal dependent desalination factories, so when the EES Panel & the office of Dim Holding kept releasing the predictable rubber stamping of the Wonthaggi Desalination “Reference Project” (not even a real design!) , it was time to give Dim’s Ministry a more truthful name.

I wonder if The Chaser could deliver the new letterhead stationery to Dim ??