'Hell no': government rejects push for revamped anthem

By Fergus Hunter
Updated May 23 2017 - 10:03pm, first published 9:54pm
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with Florence Onus Chair if the Healing Foundation reference committee when they attended the Healing Foundation Bringing Them Home breakfast at Parliament House, Canberra on Tuesday 23 May 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares  Photo: Andrew Meares
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with Florence Onus Chair if the Healing Foundation reference committee when they attended the Healing Foundation Bringing Them Home breakfast at Parliament House, Canberra on Tuesday 23 May 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares Photo: Andrew Meares

The government has poured cold water on a push for a revamped national anthem that would delete words considered offensive by some Aboriginal Australians and introduce a third verse paying tribute to the Dreamtime and Indigenous history before colonisation.

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