! A trophy to Australia for having a national anthem that makes no reference to bombs, guns, swords, and other implements of destruction.

I'm still puzzled by the plebiscite, though. An Aussie friend tells me that "Waltzing Matilda" nearly won out. True or false? (that W.M. nearly won, not that a friend told me ) - I suppose I should also say that the same friend asked, "Who is this Gert, and what's she doing by the sea anyway?"

Tsyganka, who wishes the U.S. had a different anthem