Meltdown #28: Social Democracy
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #28: Social Democracy

The people have spoken, we heard them shout
The Liberals have faced an electoral rout
Justice has been done
Democracy has won
It was a laggard government, and we’ve thrown them out

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Meltdown #27: Social Affliction
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #27: Social Affliction

Dear Scott … can your leadership get any worse
Not ordering enough test kits is beyond perverse
You ignored the prediction
Of the rate of affliction
We’re falling like flies with this Omicron curse

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Meltdown #26: Social Verdict
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #26: Social Verdict

Our crisis response has been far from perfect
And now it’s time for my final verdict
The planet’s still warming
And COVID’s still swarming
Did we do all we possibly could to avert it?

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Meltdown #25: Social Goddess
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #25: Social Goddess

A plea to Human Kind, this is your Mother Earth
I have been Goddess of this planet from since its birth
But I’ve been damaged
Polluted and ravaged
My health is no cause for merriment nor mirth

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Meltdown #24: Social Relations
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #24: Social Relations

Welcome everyone, I extend a warm greeting
I submit my report to this Cabinet meeting
On the state of our nation
And our foreign relations
Do gather around and please take your seating

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Meltdown #23: Social Flight
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #23: Social Flight

Just climbed aboard the prime ministerial jet
Slumped deep in my seat, it’s time to reflect
Just fly me to the moon
Far away from this gloom
The last months of politics I’d rather forget

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Meltdown #22: Social Politicking
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #22: Social Politicking

Dear Barnaby Joyce, this is Scott your PM
We’re approaching zero hour, nine AM
Your climate obfuscation
Is causing me frustration
The train’s left the station, no more time for mayhem

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Meltdown #21: Social U-Turn
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #21: Social U-Turn

Rushing a climate deal with just five minutes to go
That Scott can take to the world summit in Glasgow
Not a moment too soon
It’s the last chance saloon
The road to Damascus with the whole world on show

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Meltdown #20: Social Entertainment
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #20: Social Entertainment

Last weekend we wound our summer clocks forward
More daylight hours to keep ourselves bored
But every day in containment
There’s political entertainment
A distraction as Melbourne’s COVID rates soared

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Meltdown #19: Social Health
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #19: Social Health

While still smarting from a winter of discontent
Full vaccination rates now nudge fifty percent
But the gift of normality
Still a distant reality
When we’re finally free, it’ll be heaven sent

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Meltdown #18: Social Battles
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #18: Social Battles

Melbourne is battling a brutal battering
Soaring COVID, violence and tremors earth-shattering
Last Wednesday we’d wake
To a freak earthquake
Floors vibrating and our houses rattling

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Meltdown #17: Social Winners
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #17: Social Winners

Two hundred and thirty days of dooming and glooming
But green shoots are sprouting and blossoms are blooming
As we look longingly outside
Let’s put our worry’s aside
Time to tune in our tellies where sport is booming

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Meltdown #16: Social World Order
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #16: Social World Order

Horrific scenes that the world clearly remembers
Twenty years ago on this day of all Septembers
Images so indelible
A country thought infallible
Bodies buried in rubble and smouldering embers

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Meltdown #15: Social Surrender
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #15: Social Surrender

We’ve surrendered to Delta, admitted defeat
Cycled out of control, we fall at its feet
Thrown over the handle bars
The bruises and social scars
Armed only with vaccines, a dishonourable retreat

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Meltdown #14: Social Races
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #14: Social Races

To inspire and distract us from COVID gloom
The Paralympics are here not a moment too soon
Their triumphs of all kind
Sheer power of the mind
A sobering antidote to our lockdown doom

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Meltdown #13: Social Madness
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #13: Social Madness

New South Wales has become a State of despair
The State that boasted the gold standard last year
Should have closed Bondi faster
To avert this disaster
From Sydney to Auckland, it has spread everywhere

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Meltdown #12: Social Code Red
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #12: Social Code Red

This week a shrill cry of Code Red for humanity
From the international climate academy
Alarm bells were deafening
Our moment of reckoning
We’re facing a slow burn climate calamity

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Meltdown #11: Social Spirit
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #11: Social Spirit

What a rollercoaster week of see-sawing moods
Our Olympic spirit got a little battered and bruised
From happy and glorious
To lockdown nauseous
Not the way we had hoped this week would conclude

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Meltdown #10: Social Letters
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #10: Social Letters

Dear Scott, you were adamant this wasn’t a race
Last year’s longest lockdown has just gone to waste
You squandered our suppression
A blundering indiscretion
How you botched our vaccination is such a disgrace

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Meltdown #9: Social Apology
Abby Holmes Abby Holmes

Meltdown #9: Social Apology

Our lockdown continues until next Tuesday
But will it extend to yet a new day
Still in New South Wales
Delta freely exhales
While it’s Freedom Day for our friends in UK

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