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A Hop Through Australia's History


1770FAST FOREWORD
1787ALL ABOARD
1787THE FIRST FLEET STATISTICS
1787THE INCREDIBLE HULKS
1788AUSTRALIA DAY
1788AUSTRALIA NIGHT
1790THE YEAR OF HUNGER
1804THE CASTLE HILL REBELLION
1806THE RUM REBELLION
1807BILLY BLIGH
1818THE BIGGE REPORT
1820TERROR AUSTRALIS
1825ABORIGINAL REBELS
1830JOHN MACARTHUR ~ HOME ON THE SHEEP'S BACK
1835JOHN BATMAN
1835SHE'LL BE APPLES
1838MASSACRE OF ABORIGINES
1840TEN LITTLE GOVERNORS
1842CAROLINE CHISHOLM
1844LEGENDARY LEICHHARDT
1851VICTORIAN GOLD
1854THE EUREKA STOCKADE
1859-1951OUR HUNDRED YEAR WAR
1861BURKE AND WILLS AND WRIGHT AND BRAHE
1861OUR GOOD OLD DISCOVERERS
1867ROYAL VISIT
1872W. C. WENTWORTH DIES
1880THE MAN IN THE IRON CASK
1881MABEL WAS I ERE I SAW MELBA
1885WAR IN THE SUDAN
1890THE GREAT MARITIME STRIKE
1893THE CRASH OF THE 1890'S
1894WOMEN FIGHT FOR THE VOTE
1899WE'RE OFF TO KILL THE BOERS
1915GALLIPOLI
1916SO TOLD ME MRS DUNN
1916-1954THE STRANGE HISTORY OF THE LIBERAL PARTY
1922POOR HENRY DIES
1928CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH
1929-1931PHAR LAP: THE PHACTS
1932JACK AND THE LIONS
1932THE SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE OPENS
1936DONALD BRADMAN'S FIRST TRIUMPH
1939PIG IRON BOB
1942THE BOMBING OF THE NORTH
1943NANCY WAKE GOES TO FRANCE
1946-1972THE SNOWY MAN
1948ALBERT NAMATJIRA BECOMES KNOWN
1954THE PETROV AFFAIR
1954WHEN THE FACE ON THE MONEY WAS HERE
1965ROBERT MENZIES RETIRES
1965-1972THE VIETNAM WAR
1965-2000LIBERAL LEADERS
1966JORG UTZON AND THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
1966THE AMERICANISATION OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURRENCY
1975THE WHITLAM SACKING
1976THE WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY ENDS
1979THE DINGO'S CHRISTMAS
1986KIRRIBILLI
1991KEATING'S LAMENT
1991THE TWELVE SONS OF MOTHER LABOR
1993AUSSIE KEATING GOES A-CLEANING
1993DANCING THE MABO
2000REPUBLIC BID 2000
2000THE PEST POEM



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1991 - The Twelve Sons Of Mother Labor

Good Mother Labor
    So feared plutocrats,
She sent out against them
    Her twelve little brats.

Her first born Watson
    She made him the chief,
But his raid on the world
    Proved stormy and brief.

Her second born Fisher
    She gave him three go's,
But he finished up leaving
    Over war and egos.

Her third born Hughes,
    Ambitious and small,
She kicked him outside
    After a brawl.

Her fourth born Scullin
    Was quiet as a mouse,
Yet in the end he nearly
    Brought down her house.

Her fifth born Curtin
    Was gentle of breath,
But somehow or other
    She worked him to death.

Her sixth born Chifley
    She never did spank,
But still he went crying
    All the way to the bank.

Her seventh born Evatt
    Was most loyal and true,
Until one day her home
    He split right into two.

Her eighth born Calwell
    Could have got far,
But she just cut his wings
    And said, 'You're a galah.'

Her ninth born Whitlam
    Was on top of her list,
But he had to leave home
    All sad and dismissed.

Her tenth born Hayden
    She put to the slog,
But one day she swapped him
    For a drover's old dog.

Her eleventh born Hawke
    Brought home the most bread,
But he ended up somehow
    Pushed out of the bed.

Her twelfth born Keating
    Just didn't like school,
But she smiling gently
    Said, 'You're the one who'll...'



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