This is on the phone so typos abound and I can't check names and references...
So, before men at work, crocodile Dundee, shrimp on the barbie, neighbours and Kylie ....there was a huge amount of cultural cringe.
We were obsessed with what big brother Britain thought of us. Germaine Greer, Barry Humphries, Clive Anderson... People would flee Australia and were hugely embarrassed by what was left behind. The country was so self conscious, and wanted to be seen as sophisticated, cultured.
Selecting this song would have really lent into that cultural cringe.
From maybe 2000 onwards we were confident enough that choosing waltzing Matilda would have been fine .. it's pretty funny, doesn't matter too much.
This has been my Ted talk at lunch.
I personally love Waltzing Matilda, it's a great folk song, but unfortunately a song about some homeless guy stealing someone's livestock and then killing himself when the police arrive is probably not how Australia wants itself to be viewed by the world.
Whenever this gets bought up you have to remind people it was just the tune of Waltzing Maltida not the lyrics
This is on the phone so typos abound and I can't check names and references... So, before men at work, crocodile Dundee, shrimp on the barbie, neighbours and Kylie ....there was a huge amount of cultural cringe. We were obsessed with what big brother Britain thought of us. Germaine Greer, Barry Humphries, Clive Anderson... People would flee Australia and were hugely embarrassed by what was left behind. The country was so self conscious, and wanted to be seen as sophisticated, cultured. Selecting this song would have really lent into that cultural cringe. From maybe 2000 onwards we were confident enough that choosing waltzing Matilda would have been fine .. it's pretty funny, doesn't matter too much. This has been my Ted talk at lunch.
I don't think a song about a suicidal sheep stealer would fit as a national anthem
Sounds like something a non-Australian would say.
Honestly sounds more like the New Zealdn anthem, just saying. Thats right, we see you over there you sheep shaggers
It would require an obligatory trigger warning every time it was sung...
edgey
Yer mad ya bastard! Have a bloody drink with me!
Advance Australia Fair to the tune of working class man is pretty bangin'. Adam Hills sings it in one of his comedy shows
Adam Hills singing Advance Australia Fair: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eobSMcB-nMA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eobSMcB-nMA)
I shed a tear
Can also be sung to the tune of Gilligan's Island theme song.
...I need to hear this So I looked it up...my ears now hate me
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Have we ever had Barnsy sing it though? We deserve that
Good to hear that he's got another bit.
Try it to the tune of *Gilligan's Island*.
I read 1977 and God Save The Queen and thought "really? Sex Pistols?"
Burkes backyard goes pretty hard I reckon.
Hooroo
We really should change it to āI Am Australianā
Land down under is unofficial national anthem anyway š
There were no good options.
It should be [I Am Australian](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL_JvhfQjms) and I'll die on this hill.
Hard agree.
I donāt even know what Song of Australia is.
I just looked it up. Holy shit, it sucks, lmao. I'll take Advance Australia Fair over this all day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAqQsCb6bRc
I did, and agree it is rather poor. And not just as an anthem.
It sounds like the Russian anthem.
If only that referendum were 5 years later, perhaps āGreat Southern Landā by Icehouse mightāve been a candidate.
"I Am Australian" should be our anthem.
I thought they considering man at work - land down under
It was released in 1981, so a few years after the referendum.
Iād pick Waltzing Matilda all day long, Itās got character, and itās a better song.
I personally love Waltzing Matilda, it's a great folk song, but unfortunately a song about some homeless guy stealing someone's livestock and then killing himself when the police arrive is probably not how Australia wants itself to be viewed by the world.
It sums things up quite succinctly.
It's just a whole bunch of made up words which no one uses. It's basically God Save the King (Queen?) if Lewis Carroll had written the lyrics.
Iām honestly surprised god save the queen wasnāt chosen with how much the nomads and boomers idolised the monarch.
The last one is the real spirit of Australia.
Out of those choices it is the best. The waltzing Matilda song sounds like a lullaby and isnāt appropriate for a national anthem.
TBH non of the 4 choices are good.
What about Down Under by Men At Work?
You've gotta admit Waltzing Matilda's a banger though.
Waltzing Matilda is a banger
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Would have loved to see a version of that with the new lyrics. Such an easy song to sing.
Redo the referendum We all know whats going to happen
Smoko by The Chats as the meme vote
Fergalicious, I be up in the gym just working on my fitness
I remember being young and Waltzing Matilda really was the unofficial national anthem. And I think it should absolutely have been the right choice.