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Leading article Australia

We can’t rejoice until we’re free

22 January 2022

9:00 AM

22 January 2022

9:00 AM

On 1 January last year the words of the national anthem were changed, purportedly to make them more inclusive. Instead of rejoicing that we were ‘young and free’, which was supposedly offensive to the ancient cultures of Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islanders, we were exhorted to rejoice  that ‘we are one and free’.

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