Has Australia Declined Or Have I?

Because things are getting so close to barest bare metal
Needing a new miracle on top of the old miracle I've required
I turned to ChatGPT because... who else gives a fuck nowadays
Has Austtralia declined or have I? I tapped in languidly
The bot gave me all the statistics about economic failure
Justifying my sense that 1996 was the peak of the project
As good as Australia got after the 1788 misery and theft
And then it added in for good measure, comfortingly, that
'It's natural to feel a personal sense of decline'
Not a single human you meet these days will admit to this
All you'll get is a bunch of crap about 'trying harder'
'Staying positive' or being 'grateful' for who-knows-what
So, there you go -- cheered up and consoled by no one
Underneath my sneaking suspicion, a robot-revealed truth
Our postmodern absurdist present. I have declined though