I WONDER had part of the second verse of Advance Australia Fair been penned as "To make this great society the fairest of them all" , and if at the beginning of each parliamentary day, rather than reciting the Lord's Prayer, politicians sang Eric Bogle's song Shelter - which includes the words, "To the homeless and the hungry may we always open doors,
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"May the restless and the weary find safe harbour on our shores" - might we be more inclined to share our boundless plains as proclaimed in that emotional part of our national anthem, rather than it being simply a lip service?
- M. FYFE, Riverside.