Alternate Australian National Anthem Choices
"Advance Australia Fair" is boring, no one knows the second verse. It's time for a change...
Reasons for it: Everyone loves it, everyone seems to identify with it. Reasons against: It's already long associated with airline commercials.
Reasons for it: It's iconically Australian by an iconic Australian. It's a great song. Reasons against: It may only speak to the ocker/rural part of Australia
Reasons for it: It's certainly an anthem, it's a great song. Reasons against it: It's a pop song, it's technically not sung or written by anyone born in Australia (Four Brits wrote it, English-born John Farnham sang it).
Reasons for it: Everyone loves to do the call-and-response, it's a great song. Reasons against:
Swearing isn't for everyone, it might also get picked up by racists and misused as an anti-immigration taunt, it's also a rock song.
Reasons for it: Iconically Australian. Reasons aganist: It's a pop/rock song, it speaks solely to the rural experience
Reasons for it: Iconically Australian, Aussie blokes in particular love to sing it, it's a pub anthem Reasons against: It's technically about the Vietnam War, it has crude lyrics, it's a rock song.
Reasons for it: Foreigners will identify it as iconically Australian in every way. Reasons against: Foreigners probably don't realise it's entirely comprised of cultural clichés and doesn't necessarily speak to the current Australian experience
Reasons for it: Iconically Australian, it's ABOUT Australia itself. Reasons against: I can't stand it.
Reasons for it: Speaks to many, many Australian men. Great song. Reasons against: Might alienate 50% of the population
A fun sing-a-long, Slim Dusty represents Australia to many people. Reasons against: It's a song about drinking alcohol, which may not be for everyone (including myself).
