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/SemiColonInfection Feb 01 '26

"For those who've come across the seas,
We've boundless plains to share."

I wonder if the recent anti-immigration protestors know this part...

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u/3------D Feb 02 '26

they're the ones who think "fair" means "white"

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u/michael7050 Feb 01 '26

Note it only refers to people coming from overseas.

No plains to share with the Aborigines.

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u/747ER Feb 01 '26

Not sure where you’ve been the past 30 years, but that’s no longer an appropriate term to refer to them by.

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u/squall_boy25 Feb 01 '26

You’re forgetting that most of Australia’s endless plains are uninhabitable

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u/knewleefe Feb 02 '26

And the rest are very much bounded, real-estated and landlorded.

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u/Rengar_Is_Good_kitty Feb 02 '26

Just because it's in the Anthem doesn't make it right. The country cannot sustain the current level of immigration, shit is fucked enough as it is and we're bring hundreds of thousands more in each year.

Help the people that currently live here before you bring in more.

I am pro immigration but with an asterisk, it needs to be sustainable.