What a fuss over nothing, I feel strongly that some parties have been hyping this up to further their own agenda, Stop the War as mentioned above being an obvious one. There was an edited version of Eric Bogle's response circulated on Facebook by fRoots which clearly seemed to have selectively quoted to make him seem wronged and upset about it.

It's pretty clear from Eric Bogle's FULL response that while he doesn't particularly care for this cover, and agrees it does dilute the original message somewhat, he DOESN'T take particular offence and DOESN'T view it as glorifying war... His final conclusion is "if Joss's version touches heart or two here and there and makes some people reflect, perhaps for the first time, on the true price of war, then her version is as valid as anyone else's"

Is all this grubbing around to find a stick to beat the RBL with really a noble cause?