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y separately published work icon Advance Australia Fair single work   poetry   "Australia's sons, let us rejoice,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1878... 1878 Advance Australia Fair
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First known date: 1878
Notes:
First published in The Australian Town and Country Journal under the pseudonym Amicus. Susequently published under McCormick's own name.
First line of verse: "Australians all let us rejoice"
      1981 .
      Link: U3126Web resource Sighted: 29/01/2008
      Note/s:
      • This version of 'Advance Australia Fair' comprises only two verses; the second and fourth verses of the original are omitted. Also, it uses the gender-neutral words proposed by the National Australia Day Committe in 1981.
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