Yarraville West Primary School has been singing the new version of the anthem, created by community group Dulwich Centre, at assemblies for six months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The alternative anthem has the same music but different lyrics. The opening words of the song are changed to: \u201cAustralia, celebrate as one, with peace and harmony.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Judith Durham wrote the revised anthem. Picture: Nicki Connolly<\/p>\n\n\n\n The lyrics include the lines: \u201cOur precious water, soil and sun, grant life for you and me. Our land abounds in nature\u2019s gifts to love, respect and share, And honouring the Dreaming, Advance Australia Fair. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWith joyful hearts then let us sing, Advance Australia Fair. Australia, let us stand as one, upon this sacred land.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Herald Sun Extract<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Primary school students in Melbourne\u2019s west have been singing an alternative Indigenous national anthem, in a move that\u2019s been slammed as \u201cconfusing\u201d for children.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":74070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6822,471,32],"tags":[8,10927],"class_list":["post-74067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-melbourne-events","category-news","category-news-and-opinion","tag-victoria","tag-yarraville"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74071,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74067\/revisions\/74071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-173.jpeg\")
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