New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has joined calls for a change to the lyrics of Australia’s national anthem, ‘Advance Australia Fair’. Berejiklian said she supported the line, “We are young and free”, being changed to, “We are one and free” to acknowledge the nation’s 60,000 years of Indigenous history. “I feel for Indigenous Australians who don’t feel the national anthem reflects them and their history,” she told ABC on Wednesday. Channel 7 Gladys Berejiklian, the premier of NSW, has joined calls for altering the lyrics of Australia’s national anthem. “And I think if we say, ‘We’re one and free’, it acknowledges that we’re not really young as a continent.

Source: Huffington Post November 11, 2020 01:18 UTC