Learn the words to Australia’s national anthem, plus the meaning behind key lyric changes and how the song became the country’s official anthem.

It never quite lived up to its billing as “the right-wing GetUp!” but five years on, an activist group feted by Australia’s most conservative politicians and backed by some rich but reclusive ...

On April 8 1974, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam announced to parliament the nation’s new national anthem: Advance Australia Fair. Australia was growing up. We could stop saving “our gracious Queen” and ...