Not Singing the Anthem

[Disinterested third party]

Bit bizarre no thread on this.

Expect the reactions to be interesting to say the least.

 

[Last Week]

No one actually cares. Some people will go on as if they do, but that's because they just like being outraged.

 

[T-Boon]

I don't sing it either, not because of culture but because it is a crap anthem.

 

[Mr Angry]

Free country.

We know this, so no one cares.

You are free not to sing, it is what makes the place great.

 

[Mr Angry]

Silly song anyways.

Girt...

BTW the Southern Cross is visible from anywhere in the southern hemisphere.

Australia does not own it..

So many do not know this.

Makes me angry fact 540039890.

 

[sempmrh]

It’s not the national team so whatever.

 

[newyboy]

In a few years it will the the Chinese anthem and we will all have to sing.

 

[SBD82]

I notice the telegraph is trying to stir up the "patriots". But it's satisfying to see that the dog whistling isn't working.

 

[Saxon]

I don't know that I want to live in a country where you are punished for not singing the national anthem.

I really don't want to live in a country where you are punished for not singing the national anthem before a football game.

(Besides, it's a rubbish song)

 

[T-Boon]

BTW the Southern Cross is visible from anywhere in the southern hemisphere.

Australia does not own it..

So many do not know this.

I thought we owned it.

 

[The Marshall]

I really hope the media don't whip this up into a similar story like the kneeling in the NFL. Its not like its compulsory to sing the anthem anyway.

 

[Disinterested third party]

They have their similarities as events.

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

Don’t like it? don’t sing it. Want to change it? Put it to a vote.

Will be impossible to find a song that represents every Australian and if you change it, people who didn’t want it changed probably won’t sing the new anthem anyway.

 

[M2D2]

Shit song. Dont care.

 

[Knight Vision]

Silly song anyways.

Girt...

BTW the Southern Cross is visible from anywhere in the southern hemisphere.

Australia does not own it..

So many do not know this.

Makes me angry fact 540039890.

Although visible elsewhere in the southern hemisphere and "Australia does not own it" the southern cross is very significant to Australia. It designated to European explorers they were headed for the southern land. It was also of great importance for thousands of years to Aboriginal astronomy and cosmology.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Always going to be 1 or 2 not singing before a sporting match. No deeper meaning behind it just some people don't feel like doing it before kickoff. Their preference, the gluten free vegan PC patrol will do their best to make something out of it

 

[AJB1102]

Anthems and dance offs are just your 10 minute warning to grab beer, food and have a slash before the show starts.

 

[Aliceinwonderland]

Don’t like it? don’t sing it. Want to change it? Put it to a vote.

Will be impossible to find a song that represents every Australian and if you change it, people who didn’t want it changed probably won’t sing the new anthem anyway.

Some folks have an ability to have their outrage meters set to extreme 24/7. This includes right and left.

 

[El Diablo]

i am outraged

heads must roll

 

[Springs09]

I don't sing it either.

But the calls for a different anthem for the indigenous are a bit much. They aren't a different country and if you are an Australian it represents you like it or not (which I don't, it's not a great song). There's nothing offensive in it, it's generic as all hell, it's only been the anthem since 1984. It's also not as simple as including a verse in an indigenous language like the NZ anthem as we have about 300 indigenous languages and about 50 of those are still around.