CANBERRA : With its captain resolutely strapped to the wheel in a Sargasso
Sea of writhing monsters intent on devouring the crew , the SS Coalition’s Funk Bunker Barrel Brigade has
come up with this jolly song to
get the seasick, scurvy swabs pulling together on the oars . Meanwhile , back at the docks , a rodent exterminator has been called in to eradicate a severe outbreak of tome gnawing in the famous bookshelves of Attorney-General Senator Brandis which are larger than those of the fabled library of ancient Alexandria . And a skinhead in a leather jacket is expected to nail a writ to the mast of the leaking vessel once it limps into port in New South Wales and take possession of the hulk .