Australia changes national anthem to reflect indigenous past

[libertybele]

Australia changes national anthem to reflect indigenous past

Australians will sing a different version of their national anthem from 1 January after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a change to the words on Thursday.

The anthem will no longer refer to Australia as "young and free" - in an attempt to reflect the country's long indigenous history.

The announcement was a surprise but welcomed across the government.

Mr Morrison said he hopes the change will create a "spirit of unity".

People inhabited Australia for tens of thousands of years before it was colonised by mostly white English settlers in the 18th Century.

The line to be removed in the anthem, which is called Advance Australia Fair, is "For we are young and free". Instead people will sing "For we are one and free."

Earlier this year, the leader of New South Wales state, Premier Gladys Berejiklian, suggested the change, saying the current wording ignored Australia's "proud First Nations culture"............

https://www.yahoo.com/news/australia-changes-national-anthem-reflect-163120310.html

[jmyrlefuller]

"We are one" was a phrase used by Benjamin Franklin... and "free" is something he would have supported.

So, despite doing it for totally wrong politically correct reasons, this Yankee can't really object to this.

[mountaineer]

"One and free" and "young and free" sound so much alike, I suspect a lot of people will continue to sing the old anthem and none will be the wiser.

[berdie]

"One and free" and "young and free" sound so much alike, I suspect a lot of people will continue to sing the old anthem and none will be the wiser.

Much like if an attempt to redefine the Ntl Anthem in the US.

[libertybele]

Much like if an attempt to redefine the Ntl Anthem in the US.

There have been suggestions in changing our National Anthem and I anticipate it will be changed under pressure from Antifa, BLM, or another subversive group during the Biden/Harris administration.

[mikezpen]

There's  this verse in our national anthem
    No refuge could save the hireling & slave/

    From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:/

    And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave/

    O’er the land of the free & the home of the brave.

Congress could officially delete this verse, and that's fine.

B ut the left w/demand the entire thing go.

[unite for individuality]

I'm kind of disappointed with this change.
Think how Australian it would sound
if their entire national anthem
was played on a didgeridoo!

[cato potatoe]

What a ridiculous exercise.  The aboriginals were stone age tribesmen for 50,000 years, often at war with one another, and with the average intelligence of a 10 year old European.  British colonists brought civilization to the remote continent and built one of the finest nations on earth.  All within a century of the original composition ... which made it very young indeed.

[Fishrrman]

See:
James Burnham, "Suicide of the West" ...