 The Ant & The Grasshopper
The names might be foreign to you but I am sure you will understand the situation
The Ant & The Grasshopper
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays
the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper
has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
THE MODERN AUSTRALIAN VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays
the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to
know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others
less fortunate like him are cold and starving.
The ABC and Channel 9 show up to provide live coverage of the
shivering grasshopper, with cuts to a video of the ant in his
comfortable warm home with a table filled with food.
Australians are stunned that in a country of such wealth, this poor
grasshopper is allowed to suffer so while others have plenty.
The Democrats, the Greens and the Coalition Against Poverty
demonstrate in front of the ant's house.
The ABC, interrupting an Aboriginal cultural festival special from
North Queensland with breaking news, broadcasts them singing "We
Shall Overcome."
Bob Brown rants in an interview with Ray Martin that the ant has
got rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax
hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share."
In response to polls, the Liberal Government drafts the Economic
Equity and Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retrospective to
the beginning of the summer.
It is quickly passed through the Senate.
The ant's taxes are reassessed and he is also fined for failing
to hire grass hoppers as helpers.
Without enough money to pay both the fine and his newly imposed
retrospective taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
The ant moves to Asia, and starts a successful agribiz company.
The TV stations later show the now fat grasshopper finishing up
the last of the ant's food though Spring is still months away, while
the government owned house he is in, which just happens to be the
ant's old house crumbles around him because he hadn't maintained it.
Inadequate government funding is blamed, Kim Beasley now is appointed to
head a commission of inquiry that will cost $10,000,000.
The grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose, the Sydney
Morning Herald blames it on obvious failure of government to address the
root causes of despair arising from social inequity.
The abandoned house is taken over by a gang of immigrant spiders,
praised by the government for enriching Australia's multicultural
diversity, who promptly terrorize the community
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