National Song Poll. See: https://web.archive.org/web/20071120035149/http://www.aph.gov.au/library/elect/referend/pleb.htm

The National Song Poll was held in 1977 by the Fraser Government to determine which song was preferred as Australia's national anthem. Until 1974 God save the Queen/King was used as Australia's national anthem.

The Whitlam Government, following the result of a public opinion poll conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, changed the anthem to Advance Australia Fair, except on specifically royal occasions.

In January 1976, the Fraser Government reinstated the use of God save the Queen for royal, vice-regal, defence, and loyal toast occasions. Advance Australia Fair was played on all other official occasions.

On 19 April 1984, the Governor-General Sir Ninian Stephen issued a proclamation declaring that God save the Queen was to be the royal anthem, to be used in the presence of the Queen or members of the Royal Family. Advance Australia Fair was declared to be the national anthem, and non-sexist words were adopted.

Striking shearers, mentally unhinged from poor nutrition - at best suicidal and inclined to sheep stealing, pursued by Gendarmes and aggrieved Pommy Neo-Con oligarch land barons on horseback are not very PC. But seemingly much more romantic than your version NNN.

Lyrics below:

Here in this God given land of ours, Australia
This proud possession, our own piece of earth
That was built by our fathers, who pioneered our heritage,
Here in Australia, the land of our birth.

REFRAIN

God bless Australia, Our land Australia,
Home of the Anzac, the strong and the free
It's our homeland, our own land,
To cherish for eternity,
God bless Australia, The land of the free.

Here in Australia, we treasure love and liberty,
Our way of life, all for one, one for all
We're a peace loving race, but should danger ever threaten us,
Let the world know we will answer the call

REFRAIN

Fraser, wishing to avoid losing a hefty remuneration from the Battenberg family trust account post politics, decided the best choice was to push for Advance Australia Fair along with the signing of a contract with British Leyland for more useless Series 3 Land Rovers.

"our own piece of earth"?
The Rockhampton farmers know it isn't so as Singapore may get the army land from George and sons. "Governor Phillip's Instructions 25 April 1787.
Instructions for Our Trusty Arthur Phillip Esq. Our Captain General and Governor in Chief, in and over Our Territory of New South Wales . In The Twenty Seventh year of Our Reign."
Although Charles could certainly sing it with feeling as prince of Wales . He can choose Lithuanian or Welsh version.

"On 1 June 1829 Stirling published this Proclamation constituting His Majesty's Settlement in Western Australia. In the Proclamation Stirling indicated that His Majesty's Authority now applied over the Colony and hence 'all persons whom it may concern should obey all Legal Commands and regulations, as I may see fit from time to time to enact ...'.
So 1 guy owned everything south of Indonesia and anything his man said was enforced , drunk , asleep or insane . His grandfather was German which explains it.

Ttbn you say a lot of interesting things about Africa and people who live there. It is a very hot place most of it, and the many peoples who live there are black skined because of the heat do you think or for other things.

I agree with you about the climate cannot be controlled by anyone by any man at all, its all nature and that sort of thing. Don't be worried by that "blow-hard" guy AJ Philips he sounds like a little girl baby who's worried about him being a man, so he's always rude to you and other peoples here on this site. He's lonely with no friend I think thats why he's so rude to many people on this site.

You know a lot of stuff about where you come from me I guess I am from Albania only, no other blood in me or my wife and kids we think or grand kids we also think. We are white peoples all of us. Albania is in Europe and Europe is white a lot I think. We as peoples are tall me over ( in your way of mesurement I'm about 5 inchs and six feet tall) and my is 10 inchs and 5 feet tall.

I finish now and I agree with much of the things you say, ignore the girl baby AJ Philips and his little bits of rudeness, he's just a bitter lonely person who's is an angry person all the time ?

misanthrope,

You sound like very angry mans. You is become obsess with me. You hold the grudges very long times. All because I tell you your god is fantasies. Must be Albania thing. Albanian peoples sound like big anger. You mafia are real charmers.

In my country, we say God, then man, then horse, then dog, then woman, then rat then cockroach, then Albanian.

Nah. On second thoughts, I think whoever's behind this misanthrope character is having us on. The more I read that last post, the less credible it sounds.

I mean, to refer to the most ignorant post on this thread as "interesting", and then congratulate the author of it for being knowledgeable, is bit too much for me to take seriously. Sounds like an obvious troll to me.

Nice work, mate.