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Thread #118102   Message #2573601
Posted By: GUEST,Dominique
23-Feb-09 - 07:23 AM
Thread Name: Australian Songs of Influence
Subject: RE: Australian Songs of Influence
Children's Songs? Now I have never been into "up there cazaly" or "Our Don" but it seems to me there must be some humdinger sporting odes that ought to get a look in seeing as we are a "sporting nation".
How political have any of these songs been? Are the two aforementioned more significant than I think?
They don't strike me as having the impact that Walzing Matilda does?
On the other hand if only Bombora had words! Maybe "wipeout" says it all.

"It's on" is great and I haven't yet been able to find "Plastic" by Don Henderson.
I've heard "Picket Line" and "Thirty Ton Line" from Mark Gregory's great collection "With these Arms".
Is "Plastic" released anywhere? Have the Qld Folk Federation managed to get that Don Henderson Project album up?