Australia’s rugby union team the Wallabies sing anthem in Indigenous language for first time

Australia’s national anthem is sung in a local Indigenous language before the Australian rugby team’s Tri-Nations match against Argentina. Olivia Fox, a Wiradjuri woman and student at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts, sings it in the language of the Eora nation – the Aboriginal coastal clans from around Sydney. Every Wallabies player had learnt the words by heart for the historic moment before Saturday night’s game
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Wallabies sing Indigenous language Australian anthem before Tri-Nations draw with Argentina ► https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/dec/05/wallabies-sing-indigenous-language-australian-anthem-before-tri-nations-draw-with-argentina

Gladys Berejiklian backs national anthem lyric change to recognise Indigenous Australians ► https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/nov/11/gladys-berejiklian-backs-national-anthem-lyric-change-to-recognise-indigenous-australians

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  1. ∙Wallabies sing Indigenous language Australian anthem before Tri-Nations draw with Argentina ► https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/dec/05/wallabies-sing-indigenous-language-australian-anthem-before-tri-nations-draw-with-argentina

    ∙Gladys Berejiklian backs national anthem lyric change to recognise Indigenous Australians ► https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/nov/11/gladys-berejiklian-backs-national-anthem-lyric-change-to-recognise-indigenous-australians

  2. I feel so proud that I have learnt the eora version by heart ! Thanks to Olivia for singing this through.

    Australiagal ya’nga yabun

    Eora budgeri

    Yarragal Bamal Yarrabuni

    Ngurra garrigarrang

    Nura mari guwing bayabuba

    Diara-murrahmah-coing

    Guwugu yago ngabay burrabagur

    Yirribana Australiagal

    Garraburra ngayiri yabun

    Yirribana Australiagal

  3. Australians all lets us rejoice for we are OLD and free……….Advance Australia Fair !!! To be completely honest and respecrful of your older brothers and sisters of this mainland continent, Do you know where Aistralia is? it is ceetainly not this mainland continent, Look at what the Definition of Australia is in your Constitution..

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