The Australian 1 July 2011
As an island continent, pretty much every single problem besetting our once-great nation can be sheeted home to seagoing transport (well that’s where the trouble started anyway).
Coal, cows, human beings seeking succour from political oppression, they’re all the same if they’re in a bloody boat and as such I demand an immediate moratorium on all boats in all directions until it can be sorted out, starting with the immediate removal of that “girt by sea” line in the national anthem which is just asking for trouble.
And the second verse of the same bloody anthem…..
when the boat comes in- props to the TV series