The movement to change the date of Australia Day has a second, pungent and focused anthem with a collaboration between many of the country's leading hip-hop artists.
The dozen artists, including white, immigrant and indigenous rappers, make the point that if we "change the date, [we] change the game" for black/white relations in modern Australia and the song, Change the Date, promotes that argument.
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Hip hop artists urge: Change The Date
The group of 12, including Aussie hip hop royalty and emerging artists, has teamed up with NITV to produce a new song calling for the date of Australia Day to be moved.
Nooky, Birdz (Nathan Bird), Urthboy (The Herd), Thundamentals (Tuka and Jeswon), L-Fresh the Lion, Tasman Keith, Ozi Batla, Kaylah Truth, Coda Conduct (Erica and Sally) and Hau (Koolism) collaborated on the rap.
There are references to high rates of police arrests – "here go another officer locking up another one of us like it's a popular fun thing to do/another genocide on a barbecue" – as well as victims of police custody such as Ms Dhu.
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There's both history lessons on what many Indigenous Australians call Invasion or Survival Day, with modern connections to Black Lives Matter movements and the so-called patriots of the racist right, and a reminder that not all sides of this story have been told in 200-odd years.
"When I was young kid I learned about history and long division but it took me a long time before I figured out everybody's history of long division," rapped Erica from Coda Conduct.
Sikh rapper L-Fresh the Lion points out that "we're all a bunch of immigrants, but if you're African, Arab, Asian or Indian they say you gotta join the party to be a citizen/we carry the legacy of invasion/man I'm not celebrating".
While there are moments where common cause is found – "I ain't pointing no fingers, I ain't throwing no blame/just saying that we can do better, you know it's time for a change" – there are also lines, such as those from Tasman Keith, a Gumbaynggirr man, which are a reminder that anger hasn't disappeared from this discourse.
"Sick of f---ing waiting for reparations/we pacing/invasion and stolen children keep a country so complacent," raps Keith.
Mentioned in the song is indigenous hip-hop duo A.B. Original whose album, Reclaim Australia, is one of the favourites for the Australian Music Prize. The duo's change-the-date song, January 26, has been the subject of a push to garner votes in Triple J's Hottest 100, which is revealed on Australia Day.
Triple J has been under pressure in recent years to move the date of its long-running listener poll from January 26 and in late 2016 the youth network confirmed consultations and discussion were taking place with "some sort of clarity" expected later this year.
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