Pond's Nicholas Allbrook on Australia's national anthem: 'It’s ignorant and isolationist'

As he releases his second solo album, Pure Gardiya, a mediation on national identity, the Pond frontman says Australians are ‘children of no place, just outsiders to everyone’The butcher, the barber, the undertakerOur land is girt by seaThe looker, the quaker, the cocktail shakerSomething young and freeWe’re luckily, really, to live in a country where nationalism has yet to reach such heights that a rocker can’t irreverently meddle with the national anthem without risk...

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