In response to JennieG - I think Stranded is influential but what I think and what goes in the exhibition are not the samme thing. I am a researcher not a curator. My job is to search as broadly as possible and speak to as many people as possible about what 'songs of influence' might be. There are people, quite rightly, who think that to limit that to 'Australian' songs, however that may be defined, is not in the spirit of the museum's focus - which is democracy.
It is because it is about democracy that I would not be advocating a song that seemingly celebrates the opposite political spectrum. Perhaps I am wrong. I am a researcher and my job is to present the material as I find it. Of course I have my own persoanal bias, which I am happy to admit, but if you think 'God Save the Queen' has to be there then the curator will hear that. This thread is part of the reseasrch and the Living Democracy section is about people's voice and how they express that.