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Fwd from Clinton Fernandes: Re: Waltzing Matilda


Tom O'Lincoln said,

<<http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2003w33/msg00261.htm
Now non-Australians can perhaps make sense of it -- and better understand
why the ruling class is unlikely to let this ever be the national anthem>>

Not so sure. They just sang it at the start of the football Grand Final, and
John Howard (Australian Prime Minister) said recently that he had voted
for it
as the national anthem in the 1970s referendum. He still wants it to be the
national anthem. Our elites are quite comfortable with the song.

CF

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