"Everyone please stand for the national anthem." Those are the words that echo throughout a crowd seconds before sisters Jess and Lisa Orgiliasso launch into their most enduring song to date.
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.
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 ...
There’s anger over a decision not to play the National Anthem at the official opening of the Australian War Memorial’s $500 ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia amended its national anthem to remove reference to the country being "young and free" amid calls to recognise that its Indigenous people are the oldest continued ...
Brisbane-based soul singer Liliya Butonova was handed the daunting task of singing Advance Australia Fair (watch it in the ...