"Changing 'young and free' to 'one and free' takes nothing away, but I believe it adds much," Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.<\/p>\n
But Mundine, the Indigenous former NRL star, said that wasn't good enough.<\/p>\n
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"One word ain't gonna change the core meaning of a song!" Mundine said in a statement.<\/p>\n
"It's always gonna be a white supremacy song until the whole song is rewritten!<\/p>\n
"Still ain't good enough!"<\/p>\n
Many Indigenous Australians believe the anthem to be non-representative of their ancient culture, if not racist.<\/a><\/p>\n Mundine was also critical after the Wallabies sung the anthem in the Eora language for the first time last year.<\/a><\/p>\n He expanded on his issues with the anthem in an extensive interview with Wide World of Sports<\/em> in 2019.<\/a><\/p>\n Indigenous Olympic hero Cathy Freeman, however, supported the change on Twitter.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/CathyFreeman\/status\/1344669373689069569?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n "During the past year we have showed once again the indomitable spirit of Australians and the united effort that has always enabled us to prevail as a nation," Morrison added.<\/p>\n "It is time to ensure this great unity is reflected more fully in our national anthem.<\/p>\n "Also, while Australia as a modern nation may be relatively young, our country's story is ancient, as are the stories of the many First Nations peoples whose stewardship we rightly acknowledge and respect.<\/p>\n "In the spirit of unity, it is only right that we ensure our national anthem reflects this truth and shared appreciation."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Australian boxing great Anthony Mundine says the national anthem change "still ain't good enough" and that it remains a "white supremacy song." From today, the […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16387,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16385\/revisions\/16387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}