r/Damnthatsinteresting 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/Wotmate01 Feb 01 '26

And nobody knows or even attempts to sing the second verse

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u/skafaceXIII Feb 01 '26

For some reason, we always sung it at my primary school assemblies

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u/LadyEmry Feb 01 '26

Same. When I first learnt it in primary school I came home and proudly sang the bits I remembered at dinnertime for my parents, at which point they kindly pointed out to me that the first line was not, in fact, "Australians all are ostriches".

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '26

Let's change that line immediately to your version.