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Bob Patterson (Qld.) believes it’s up to our leaders to set an example on ethical behaviour and this is not being done - he points to “child-molesting clergy”, politicians displaying nepotism and CEOs taking “obscene” salaries. Nor are ethics being taught in schools. Future leaders, says Patterson, are happy for their elitist schools to take “un-needed” money from governments. “Any ethics in current society are just left over from the past…”

Maybe from 2004 years ago, according to Jeannine Baird (NSW) who seeks to remind Tim Costello - in verse - that Jesus “was a Leftie”…

“It’s time for an election.
It’s time for us to choose.
We’d like to have a leader who
Would walk in Jesus’ shoes.
But when I think about the loaves and fish
And the thousands that he fed,
I think if he were hear (sic) today,
 They’d call Jesus “red”.

 CHORUS:
 Jesus is no right-wing man.
 He’s left, he’s left, you see!
So into social justice
That He died for you and me.
Christian pollies, Christian voters
Asking “What Would Jesus Do?”
Open up your Bibles!
Read the Gospels! Then go to!

If you seek asylum,
If you’re a refugee,
Jesus says to you, “If you need rest,
Then come to me.”
Jesus loved “boat people”!
Some were his closest friends.
 It’s people like our refugees
Lord Jesus would defend.

If you’re a Christian NIMBY, if you’re from the Bible belt,
The Hills may be alive,
But millions more deserve your help.
Come out of your McMansions,
See them through the eyes of Christ,
It’s the Peter from the Gospels
Who can point their way to life.