August 8: If you're honest, please stand up ...

If you’re honest, please stand up, I want to see your hand

If you’re standing you’re an oddity, in parliamentary land

How about a little bribe, an envelope packed with cash

I want to build a block of flats, would you let me have a bash

If you’re sincere, please cry out, I want to hear your voice

When you took that oath of office, you knew you’d have a choice

You could walk the straight and narrow, or be dishonest and corrupt

Did you think that you could hide it, it’s just waiting to erupt

If you have integrity, your face I want to read

In your role as my Mayor, it’s for me you should succeed

You’re not there for your own benefit, to steal from the public purse

The frequency of corruption has become this state's curse

If you will make the sacrifice, then you’re the one for me

Public life it can’t be easy, there’s so many things that you could be

Those who want you in their pocket will court you for their cause

Their dishonesty will smother you, and its smell will fill your pores

Stand up straight, your hand held high, your face determined and so strong

You know that as soon as you get power, you also know it won’t be long

For favours to be asked of you, for your integrity to be tried with force

And if you bend just a fraction, you’ll get to ICAC in due course