There's a green plastic chair Out on a dirt road Where the baobab grows And nobody goes there There's art on a wall Drawn by a child In school that sits quiet Behind bright colored doors There's a slide and a swing That sways in the breeze Where the land gently breathes By the stream where we'd swim My dad would would catch Barrumundi two to a line We'd Cook them in the fire  And eat them just like that I'm not walking for freedom I'm not stamping my feet on the floor I'm not running for office  I'm not marching to war I wanna walk where my grandfather walked Now I'm Camped on the oval down at kununurra  My sisters in a tent on the marsh  And on the outskirts of Wyndham where the weather gets harsh They say there's a toilet the boys use for cover Five deaths and four suicides in the town was a crises  But out here they fall quiet as leaves And the last man left standing refusing to leave Is the first one to lay down as the sun slowly rises I'm not punching the air for revenge  I'm not on parade for anyone's head I didn't come to this street out of hate I came out of love and to find a way Cause I want to walk where my grandfather walked They say there's diamonds in the mountains Just like stars in the sky Say there's minerals in the sand dunes Flow just like rivers rushing by They some things are viable  Others are not If you want precious metal You've gotta break a few rocks They say it'll take Five men six weeks to get rid of the town Where I raised up all my seven kids  And we took on lawyer for one final bid But in the end he went along with the crowd  And Premier Barnett says Oombulgurri's one town  But there's hundreds more to be done And prime minster Abbott says choices of lifestyle aren't funded And I think that he's talking about Me But I wanna walk where my grandfather walked

Mr. bowles, I will be your inquisitor today Can you start by talking bout the compound and the fences and the gate Well mr inquisitor let me start by saying We were on the far side of an island on the far side of a country far away Where the animals sound like children crying and the smell of human sweat keeps you awake Where the jungle is alive and the locals sharpen knives And the air it is so heavy you can feel it in your stomach like a weight But the government of the PNG they said we could keep them in community But our side did not agree You ask me who it was that made that call I cannot recall Mrs. Stokes we do sincerely hope You can add to these words that have been spoke Mr. Inquisitor Let me attest this was a temporary facility made of tents and made of concrete Where the water ran through ditches as slowly as the days slipped into the weeks All protected by a fence that could be pushed down by four men And was covered by black mesh Not to protect it from the blade But from the piercing of the lense To keep out the prying eyes But kept in the burning air Made it feel like you were living in an oven And if you'd like to view the site Well I'm sure that that you just might But the Papuans decide (But we'd need to contact our friends on the other side) And if they ever sought at advice Who to admit or deny Or asked for comment upon matters on their shores I cannot recall Mr. St. George would you tell us what you saw Of the people, and their lives behind the doors In 6 months time those 300 men weren't the same ones who'd come in There was no privacy, and us guards took down the sheets The things that happened through the nights I thought every human knows wrong from right But when I reported to the beaurocrats they said come now jailer dry your eyes We sympathise but it's a political problem and we've just got to manage for a while And they talked about the risks The challenge they foresaw But if there was single action that they took at all Well I cannot recall Mr. Pye what in site can you provide Bout what happened on that day and transpired on that night We'll yes sir I will try to be complete let me read for you from my diary 5pm 50 men demonstrate at Oscar A peaceful protest. 7pm, a client throws a chair PNG deploy the Dog Squad 9:25 theyre fighting for their lives pushing down the fense that keep them out of foxtrot side They're throwing rocks and dodging all the rocks thrown in from the outside 12pm it's hard to tell who are the g4s who are the PNG Who are the police who are the guards Who has just come along for the party The enforcers have brought gas And the locals have what fits inside a hand rocks and poles, chair legs, bits of stone machetes, excercise weights and what else who can say 1:04 theyre forcing in the doors, Dragging men out from under beds and you can hear their nails clawing at the floors Then at 3am I'm lying on the cold ground by the dock With a young mans head laying cross my lap saying "Just hang in the just hang in there. You'll be alright" Deep deep down I hope that m not lying. That we haven't been lying to him to begin with. Cause we came here to protect them And just the point it was when things went wrong I cannot say And just the point it was he closed his eyes just let go drifted away Well after all I can not recall And in the court room the men in the matching blue suits And the matching blue ties Looked down At their matching black boots Shuffled their feet As they heard about how the very the next day How The guards they walked around with blood on their shoes And about the boy from Somalia Who couldn't eat and couldn't sleep Across days and across weeks And about how there's still no fence And the water still runs through trenches And six months on No one has been interviewed about a single offence Or spoken to the inmates about their claims Or how long they'll have to wait And country they were going to says We'll decide who will come into out shores And if they're running away from something There must something they need to be punished for But what it was and where it is Who's at fault And by which law We can not recall

When I was four years old I went on a boat And the first thing that I know Is staring at an ocean Feeling the air so fresh and cold And a hand upon shoulder And then a land that's red and glowing And a horizon that gets stolen And the air just like an oven And the handle that is scolding But the water in the bucket It is sacred and it is holy And I dare not spill a drop Because we must all get washed I dare not spill drop Because we must all get washed And out there in Tardun The fathers got us building And my life had just begun But it felt like it had ended 5 hours out of Perth Just like id fallen from the earth And landed in a place Forgotten by the human race Replaced by a brotherhood of man Who had gone mad And they gave it everything they had They held my feet they held my hands I missed my mum I missed my aunt I missed my sister I missed my gran When I climbed up to that cab He said I'm a father not a dad And afterwards he said There's a drum go get yourself cleaned up And I've never ever stopped Though I've washed and I have washed I've never ever stopped though I've washed and I have washed Yes we must all get washed And id rather sleep out on the street Than step into a palace of the people And when I see Those uniforms up on tv I say the Gestapo is still free And when they say well dig down deep I say remember me and the red shield in the dessert And the prisoners that they kept Well do they still keep Because every dollar that we ask for they say time has washed away But the pain it still remains Oh yes it never stops Though they say it has been washed We must all get washed The honorable George Pell He's ringing all the Bells He says the helpless will be helped The sick will become well The shamed will be saved the denied and the betrayed They will again all become clean And the lawyers they agree And there's a pope in every tv And they're on their stomachs they're on their knees They're swinging from the treesThey're a swaying surging sea And I look out like a boy Seeing the first thing that he's seen The voices sound like waves Saying "we believe, we still believe" I see nothing ever changes The pain drifts through the ages I see that I am lost I've been cleaned and I've been washed We must all get washed