ART is life.

Without you I am lost, A painter without

A canvas, colours of the entire

World just fade

Without you I am lost, A  dream without

Sleep, an entire world

Within a pillow, A parade

Without you I am blind, no guidance

Nor inspiration, an entire world

That never changes

Without you I am deaf ears, hearing

Nothing but every day

Talk , no room for poetic peers

Nor new pathways to walk

Without ART , without CULTURE

Dissolved, disconnected

It's not just Australia, whom is effected

So I say to you Mr Turnbull

My vote you've just rejected.

Nardine Sanderson 15/05/2016.