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The Australian National Anthem - Australia's Culture PortalPeter Dodds McCormick's Advance Australia Fair was officially declared Australia's national anthem by the Governor-General on 19 April 1984, close to 160 years after the first alternative anthems were put forward. South Australian Carl Linger wrote Song ...
The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia represents the monarch of Australia - currently Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The functions and roles of the Governor-General include appointing ambassadors, ministers and judges, giving Royal Ass...
The Great Depression (1929–32) was a time of extreme hardship for people in Australia. Even before the devastating stock market crash on Wall Street (the centre of stock market trading in New York, United States of America), unemployment in Austral...
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Music Australia - Dame Nellie Melba singing National Anthem at Parliament House, Canberra, Royal Visit, 1927 (website MusicAustralia )Dame Nellie Melba singing National Anthem at Parliament House, Canberra, Royal Visit, 1927 [picture] / W.J. Mildenhall. Mildenhall collection of photographs of Canberra. Use or borrow this resource from a library, archive or organisation near you or ask...
Dame Nellie Melba singing National Anthem at Parliament House, Canberra, Royal Visit, 1927 [picture] / W.J. Mildenhall. Mildenhall collection of photographs of Canberra. Use or borrow this resource from a library, archive or organisation near you or ask...
Playing of the Italian national anthem and raising of the medallist's flags, fencing, women's individual foil, Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, 21 September 2000 [picture] / Loui Seselja. Hockey, archery and fencing events, Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, 21 Septem...
Playing of the Italian national anthem and raising of the medallist's flags, fencing, women's individual foil, Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, 21 September 2000 [picture] / Loui Seselja. Hockey, archery and fencing events, Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, 21 Septem...
Victorian national anthem [music] / words by G. Gordon McCrae ; composed by J. Summers. McCrae, George Gordon, 1833-1927. International Exhibition, (1880-1881 : Melbourne, Vic.)...
Victorian national anthem [music] / words by G. Gordon McCrae ; composed by J. Summers. McCrae, George Gordon, 1833-1927. International Exhibition, (1880-1881 : Melbourne, Vic.)...
Packer, F. A. (Frederick Augustus), 1839-1902. Songs with piano -- Tasmania -- Scores. Use or borrow this resource from a library, archive or organisation near you or ask your local library to arrange an interlibrary loan on your behalf (most libraries ...
New Public School and the scholars who sang the National Anthem at the station on the arrival the previous night, Pine Creek, 1912 [picture]. School children -- Northern Territory -- Pine Creek -- Photographs. Schools -- Northern Territory -- Pine Creek...
New Public School and the scholars who sang the National Anthem at the station on the arrival the previous night, Pine Creek, 1912 [picture]. School children -- Northern Territory -- Pine Creek -- Photographs. Schools -- Northern Territory -- Pine Creek...
New Public School and the scholars who sang the National Anthem at the station on the arrival the previous night, Pine Creek, 1912 [picture]. School children -- Northern Territory -- Pine Creek -- Photographs. Schools -- Northern Territory -- Pine Creek...
Packer, F. A. (Frederick Augustus), 1839-1902. Songs with piano -- Tasmania -- Scores. Use or borrow this resource from a library, archive or organisation near you or ask your local library to arrange an interlibrary loan on your behalf (most libraries ...
Packer, F. A. (Frederick Augustus), 1839-1902. Songs with piano -- Tasmania -- Scores. Use or borrow this resource from a library, archive or organisation near you or ask your local library to arrange an interlibrary loan on your behalf (most libraries ...
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John Dunmore Lang, who published an Australian Anthem and an Australian Hymn in 1826, was an early advocate of a distinctively Australian anthem. South Australian Carl Linger wrote Song of Australia in 1860, which was suggested to the (then) Prime Minist...
» A Land Fit For Heroes? >State Records is the NSW Government's archives and records management authority. We manage the NSW State archives collection and we set the rules and provide guidance on the management of official records....
Sranan gron e kari oen The soil of Suriname is calling you Wi moes seti kondre boen We should take care of our country Stre de f'stre wi no sa frede We are not afraid to fight...
Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi Gwlad beirth a chantorion enwogion o fri Ei gwrol ryfelwyr Gwlad garwyr tra mÔd Tros ryddid gollasant eu gwaed. My hen w(oo)lad vern-had-eye un an-oil ee me Gw(oo)lad by-earth a-kan-torion en wog-ee-on o vree Eye goor...
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