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OLD VERSION:
The ant makes his slave the grasshopper work hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and
laying up supplies for the winter.

The ant does not care about the grasshopper and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter,
so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:

Don’t become a slave!






MODERN VERSION:

The ant makes his slave the grasshopper work hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and
laying up supplies for the winter.

The ant does not care about the grasshopper and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.


Come winter, the ant is well fed while the grasshopper has no food or shelter he is cold and starving.

TV7,9 & 10 News, and Sky News
show up to provide pictures of the ant complaining that the grasshopper did not work hard enough to create enough food or shelter for the grasshopper.
The country is stunned by the grasshoppers inability to create enough food or shelter.

How can this be, that a country cannot grow its’ wealth because the grasshopper will not work harder for the ant?

Bob Brown appears on Sky News
with the grasshopper and everybody blames the grasshopper.

The Greens stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We shall overcome.


Green Party Leader Bob Brown condemns the ant
and blames John Howard , Tony Abbott , Julie Bishop , Capitalism and Global warming for the grasshopper's plight.
Greg Combet exclaims in an interview with TV News that the ant has gotten rich off the back of his slave the grasshopper,
and both call for an immediate fair wage system to make the ant pay a fair wage to the grasshopper.

Finally to gain votes to win an election , the Government drafts the Economic & Anti-Slave Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to consider how his hard working slave grasshopper was affected, having to pay his retroactive wages, one of his homes that his slave grasshopper built is confiscated under the Government Land Repo Act and wages are paid to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the slave grasshopper receiving a fair wage for the work he has done for the ant, while the ant still enjoys one of his many houses built by his slave grasshopper.

The ant has more people to buy his products and prospers even more than he did before.

The grasshopper has a better quality of life and works harder for the ant.