“Changing ‘young and free’ to ‘one and free’ takes nothing away, but I believe it adds much.”The move was supported across the political spectrum. The anthem, “Advance Australia Fair,” was written by Peter Dodds McCormick in 1878. In 2015, Yorta Yorta soprano singer Deborah Cheetham declined to sing the anthem for the Australian Football League’s Grand Final in Melbourne. “Our national anthem tells us that we are young and free,” she wrote in an essay for The Sydney Morning Herald. That could mean that a body of Indigenous Australians would have a voice in Parliament and be allowed to offer input on legislation and policies affecting them.

Source: bd News24 December 31, 2020 21:56 UTC