Uh, Australia.. We have a problem...

Australians all let us rejoice
For we are young and free
We've golden soil and wealth for toil,
Our home is girt by sea:
Our land abounds in nature's gifts
Of beauty rich and rare,
In history's page let every stage
Advance Australia fair,
In joyful strains then let us sing
Advance Australia fair.

Beneath our radiant Southern Cross,
We'll toil with hearts and hands,
To make this Commonwealth of ours
Renowned of all the lands,
For those who've come across the seas
We've boundless plains to share,
With courage let us all combine
To advance Australia fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing,
Advance Australia fair.

Australia. We have a problem.

We've lost our identity.

Forgotten who we are, who we were, and what we were destined to become.

High rates of depression, and the highest rate of suicide among young men.

We don't rejoice.

We might  be young, but we're by no means free.. Imprisoned by debt and rising costs to jobs if we're lucky enough to have them, but mostly even if we do, we're working to increase someone else's bank balance, more than our own.  And if not, we're watching welfare cuts being made left right and centre, all while tax breaks provide corporate welfare with the view that it trickles down... But does that ever happen?

The golden soil and wealth for toil? The wealth goes to those sitting in the offices, bank managers and executives get incredibly stupendous bonuses, while the workers have to strike to get an accurate cost of living increase for their hard work..

Our nature's gifts are exported out and sold back to us at increased cost..

And as for advancing Australia fair?  Not lately.. The race does not go to the swift... The honour to whom it's due.. But often to the one who the media tells us it should..

We're becoming renown through all the lands, alright, as the country that elected a PM who has nothing short of embarrassed us on the international stage and picked a fight with our nearest neighbour, attempting to make criminals of innocent, vulnerable individuals, and in the process breaking international agreements and likely law, violating the sovereign borders of another country.

All to stop those who've come across the seas to share our boundless plains.

What we need now is courage.   And unity.

It's all we have left of our national anthem.

Happy Australia Day, everyone..