Election time in Australia

Election time hurrah!
In Australia now
If registered to vote
It is compulsory
It is mandatory
Your really must do it
If you don't you are fined
But that is still OK
As all you have to do
Go to the polling booth

Get name crossed off the roll

For then you can decide

If you want to or not

You could fold up your paper

Without a mark on it

Place it in the ballot box

Then have done your duty

Your vote is informal

Just doesn’t count at all

But if you really care

Who governs the country

Your representative

That’s for the lower house

You must number every box

In preference order

For the Senate it changes

You number six at least

Above the special line

In the little boxes

Representing parties

But alternatively

Below the line you can

Vote for individuals

But in order of course

Numbering at least twelve

Finished? Very well done

If only we could get

Government we deserve

After all that hard work

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