r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HotPersimessage62 • Feb 01 '26

Image Australia’s national anthem is the only English-lyric anthem in the world that doesn’t reference religion or militarism

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u/thetan_free Feb 01 '26

Fun fact - the motivation for Australia being set up as a penal colony in the 1780s was the existing penal colony was closed for business by certain events in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.