Uploaded June 2010 | Updated September 2026, 19 hours ago
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In response to Kevin Rudd's recently proposed super profits tax on Australia's mining industry.
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LYRICS
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NICK: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has recently announced a super profit tax on Australia's mining industry.
The reform would see a 40% tax placed upon mining giants Rio Tinto and other mining companies within Australia.
NIB: But it's no minor issue. Already, BHP is reconsidering future iron mining projects in Western Australia.
Which got us thinking... there are currently only three active uranium mines in Australia: Kakadu National Park.
NICK: Kakadu!
NIB: Jabiluka.
NICK: Jabiluka, you beauty!
NIB: And Radium Hill.
NICK: R... Radium Hill.
NIB: Yet Australia has the largest uranium reserves in the world.
NICK: I wonder what it would be like if we ended up mining all of that uranium...
UUUUUUU
UUUUUUU
UUUUUUU
UUUUUUU
[The chemical symbol of Uranium is U]
We've got bars that glow gamma rays
Radiation powers the place
Uranium
Deep underneath Australia
Below the dusty plain
Uranium is in the soil
But is it there in vein?
Got to dig down
(Vrlll vrllll)
Deep under ground
(It's found underground)
Time for nuclear power
Cuz the industry's a boom (BOOM!)
Those oxides we will stockpile
Watch our market shares mushroom
Let's go all out
(Drill down where it's found)
Hope for no fallout
(Your hair might fall out)
Huge coal mining tax to be payed
Solar power dies in the shade
Birds hit hydro-electric fan blades
Uranium
"All employees are reminded to wash their protective underwear after use."
Can you name the noble gases making you all cough?
It's like that Chernobyl crisis leaking... oops, we're stuffed
Uranium "Marge, the acid rains are here!"
Uranium "My geraniums!"
We run far to make our escape
The extra leg helps us to keep pace
Like a one man three-legged race
Uranium
Here at the plant we watch our own skin bake
Turning to pink then glows and starts to flake
Better escape or we will all vaporise
BHP must now come and compensate
Nuclear families in every state
Got the green lung and lasers shoot from our eyes
Everyone can now fly through space
(I'm brainier!)
We've become a new super race
(Big cranium!)
I've got a new X-men name IT'S MACE!
Uranium!
Nuclear construction
Build that power plant
Of the world resources
We've got 23%
We're mining all these minerals
Refining what we take (So fine!)
No oil spills from our business
Let our energy radiate!
We've got arms, they stick from our face
Not like 'arms' as in 'nuclear arms race'
It's the decade to be decayed
Uranium
Download mp3 at reverbnation.com/niboswald
In response to Kevin Rudd's recently proposed super profits tax on Australia's mining industry.
*********
LYRICS
*********
NICK: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has recently announced a super profit tax on Australia's mining industry.
The reform would see a 40% tax placed upon mining giants Rio Tinto and other mining companies within Australia.
NIB: But it's no minor issue. Already, BHP is reconsidering future iron mining projects in Western Australia.
Which got us thinking... there are currently only three active uranium mines in Australia: Kakadu National Park.
NICK: Kakadu!
NIB: Jabiluka.
NICK: Jabiluka, you beauty!
NIB: And Radium Hill.
NICK: R... Radium Hill.
NIB: Yet Australia has the largest uranium reserves in the world.
NICK: I wonder what it would be like if we ended up mining all of that uranium...
UUUUUUU
UUUUUUU
UUUUUUU
UUUUUUU
[The chemical symbol of Uranium is U]
We've got bars that glow gamma rays
Radiation powers the place
Uranium
Deep underneath Australia
Below the dusty plain
Uranium is in the soil
But is it there in vein?
Got to dig down
(Vrlll vrllll)
Deep under ground
(It's found underground)
Time for nuclear power
Cuz the industry's a boom (BOOM!)
Those oxides we will stockpile
Watch our market shares mushroom
Let's go all out
(Drill down where it's found)
Hope for no fallout
(Your hair might fall out)
Huge coal mining tax to be payed
Solar power dies in the shade
Birds hit hydro-electric fan blades
Uranium
"All employees are reminded to wash their protective underwear after use."
Can you name the noble gases making you all cough?
It's like that Chernobyl crisis leaking... oops, we're stuffed
Uranium "Marge, the acid rains are here!"
Uranium "My geraniums!"
We run far to make our escape
The extra leg helps us to keep pace
Like a one man three-legged race
Uranium
Here at the plant we watch our own skin bake
Turning to pink then glows and starts to flake
Better escape or we will all vaporise
BHP must now come and compensate
Nuclear families in every state
Got the green lung and lasers shoot from our eyes
Everyone can now fly through space
(I'm brainier!)
We've become a new super race
(Big cranium!)
I've got a new X-men name IT'S MACE!
Uranium!
Nuclear construction
Build that power plant
Of the world resources
We've got 23%
We're mining all these minerals
Refining what we take (So fine!)
No oil spills from our business
Let our energy radiate!
We've got arms, they stick from our face
Not like 'arms' as in 'nuclear arms race'
It's the decade to be decayed
Uranium
