'Hell no': government rejects push for revamp of Advance Australia Fair national anthem

By Fergus Hunter
May 23 2017 - 2:30pm
'Hell no': government rejects push for revamp of Advance Australia Fair national anthem
'Hell no': government rejects push for revamp of Advance Australia Fair national anthem

The government has poured cold water on a push for a revamped national anthem that would delete words considered offensive by some Aboriginal Australians and introduce a third verse paying tribute to the Dreamtime and Indigenous history before colonisation.

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