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Australia changes national anthem to include indigenous history

By Mike Brest
Published January 2, 2021 12:13am ET
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Australia changes national anthem to include indigenous history
FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2014 file photo, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks at a press conference with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key at the Commonwealth Parliamentary offices in Sydney, Australia. Abbott says he will spend a week in an Outback Aboriginal settlement to focus national attention on the bleak plight of indigenous people. Abbott announced his trip to remote East Arnhem Land, to be made sometime later this year, in a speech to Parliament on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File) | Rob Griffith

Australia changed its national anthem to be more inclusive of indigenous people.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the slight change in “Advance Australia Fair” on Thursday, hours before the country welcomed in 2021. The line that reads, “Australians all let us rejoice, for we are young and free,” will now end with “one and free.”

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