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7 | 22.58% |
| Let's Bring back God Save the Queen |
  
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2 | 6.45% |
| Land Down Under |
  
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9 | 29.03% |
| Great Southern Land |
  
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0 | 0% |
| I still call Australia home |
  
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3 | 9.68% |
| Something else. |
  
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10 | 32.26% |
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12-10-2008, 09:53 PM
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12-10-2008, 09:56 PM
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Tie me Kangaroo Down, Sport ftw.
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I wouldn't have voted for it, but no Waltzing Matilda!?
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12-10-2008, 10:16 PM
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I prefer Waltzing Matilda as a song, but I think it'd probably further degrade a great song by removing its meaning and turning it further into plain cliche if it became our national anthem. I really hate all the times people play Waltzing Matilda in totally inappropriate situations and ramble on about its patriotic significance. It's a very meaningful song but you've got to be aware of the context, and I just don't see it maintaining its significance through being overplayed as a national anthem. About the only decent performance of it in a "national anthem" context I can remember is the Slim Dusty one in the Closing Ceremony in 2000.
Anyway I really don't care much about the national anthem, so the current one is fine.
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I'd vote for Swingin' Safari by Bert Kaempfert if it was an available choice.
It'd be just about right, I think. The lyrics shouldn't prove too hard for your average Aussie bogan to cope with either.
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Went for Land Down Under since I have heard it played over the PA in a Polish corner store. Not that any of the people in that store (apart from me) would have understood English anyway.
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