Here's a fun historical hang up - Advance Australia Fair was chosen by referendum in 1974, a decade before voting rights for Indigenous Australians were fully equalised to the rest of the population Prior to that the Australian national anthem was God Save The Queenhttps://twitter.com/mattjcan/status/1344774208379711489 …
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Could always go back to God Save the Queen?
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I would favour Men at Work - Down Under
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I was in primary school. I wanted Waltzing Matilda but some thought it was unsophisticated, so we ended up with the urban, hip Advance Australia Fair.
We spent the entire year at school learning the new anthem. Ugh! -
I was taught that 'young' referred to Aus. federation being less than 100 yrs ago (at that time). Nothing more than that. It was a different time...
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