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Peter 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...
Loui Seselja, Portrait of Margret Roadknight, singer, looking at sheet music for Waltzing Matilda while visiting the National Library of Australia, Music Section, Canberra, 22 July 1994, negative: b&w. South Australian Carl Linger wrote Song of Australia...
ms-titleareaframe { background: none; height: 10px; overflow:hidden; } . Who manages the DVA rehabilitation process? Advance Australia Fair is played to conclude the commemorative ceremony. ...
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ëAdvance Australia Fairí has officially been Australiaís national anthem since 19 April 1984. Australians all let us rejoice, For we are young and free; Weíve golden soil and wealth for toil; Our home is girt by sea; Our land abounds in natureís gifts Of ...
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...
Australian national anthem quest [music] / edited by George S. English. Australiana / Michael Bingham<br/>God bless our land (my home, my land, Australia) / C. B. Lawrence<br/>Austral anthm / H. C. Hyland<br/>The land we love / W. H. Keith Young<br/>Aust...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Melbourne : E.W. Cole Book Arcade, c1913. "Copyright 1913 by A.P. Butler". 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 charge for t...
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...
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