LEAD Action News
LEAD Action News vol 10 no 1, June 2010 ISSN 1324-6011
Incorporating Lead Aware Times ( ISSN 1440-4966) and Lead Advisory Service News (ISSN 1440-0561)
The Journal of The LEAD (Lead Education and Abatement Design) Group Inc.
Guest Editor: Monica Maharjan, Master of Science Management and Master of Applied Sciences (Biotechnology).
Editor-in-Chief: Anne Roberts

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Lead in Literaturebook A Poem: 

Giving Australia a Hand

By Hugh O’Brien, Lyricist, Speechwriter,
Screenwriter & Award-Winning Playwright

It’s keeping us between the flags

It’s saving towns with sandbags

It’s serving in a hospital shop

It’s telling tourists where to stop

It’s helping the blind play bingo

It’s teaching migrants the lingo

It’s flagging a goal

It’s buttering a roll

It’s delivering the meals

It’s being the wheels

It’s selling red noses

It’s arranging church roses

It’s serving the homeless soup

It’s helping out The LEAD Group

It’s good-hearted Aussies pitching in with a grin

It’s what they call volunteering

Because the unwritten law of our land

Is giving a neighbour giving a stranger

Giving Australia a hand

It’s our bush brigades

Where heroes are made

It’s the SES always giving their best

It’s Blue Care and Red Cross

It’s people who give a toss

It’s Aussie Helpers on the farm

It’s Lifeline and Salvos and Drug Arm

It’s Saint Vinnies and Saint John

The list just goes on and on

It’s good-hearted Aussies pitching in with a grin

It’s what they call volunteering

Because the unwritten law of our land

Is giving a neighbour giving a stranger

Giving Australia a hand

PHOTO: Poet Hugh O’Brien “telling tourists where to stop” while holidaying in Egypt, May 2010.

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