It Has Always Been This way

John Howard  a long term Liberal Prime Minister of Australia by the voters disempowered
And Labor Party Leader Kevin Ruud who did succeed him as P M suffered a slightly different fate to Howard
Since his own party him demoted life in politics can be cruel
It does seem only a Monarch is the person born to rule

Howard and Ruud had one thing in common inflated egos it does seem
Both of them are quite conceited not lacking in self esteem
One can leave it to the people such big egos to create
And leave it to the politicians their own downfall to instigate

Now we have Australia's first female Prime Minister Julia Gillard is her name
As her two male predecessors will her political demise be much the same
Julia too not short of ego that much of her can be said
Great power can become addictive it can go straight to one's head

Kevin Ruud is now Australia's Foreign Minister for himself still doing okay
And John Howard is on a huge pension one who has never known of a poor day
In politics big egos can become deflated when the voters have their say
And in Australia life goes on as usual it has always been this way.