Uploaded by downunderupover on Oct 24, 2006
When "Great Southern Land" was released as the first single from the Primitive Man album in 1982, a video for it was filmed in a disused sandstone quarry in the Kuringai National Park near Sydney. Then, in 1989, when the song met its first release as a single in North America and Europe, a new clip had to be made to accompany the overseas single. This time, the background Australian landscapes were provided by the Myall Lakes National Park on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. As befits the song, both clips were, of course, typically Australian in content, but the earlier one did feature a few Australian native animals, including a large goanna crawling across barren sandy earth. This latter typical Australian had obviously won many fans, since, when the new clip appeared there were quite a few appeals for "the one with the goanna." The result was that both "Great Southern Land" clips had to be included in the commercial video released in 1989. (www.spellbound-icehouse.org)
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There really are too many great Aussie classics to be our National anthem. Maybe they all should be the national anthem.
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It should be the Australian nation anthem........... the lyrics say it all!
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should be our national anthem
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55 losers
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@SuperFUCKtheNWO whAT YOUr ABORIGINAL?YOUR AN Immigrant fun boy whats your culture nwo eh who invaded lol dumbyNWO ur name suits
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I love this song to bits.
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australia day? what I forgot again. in this land this sunburnt land of bronzed aussies (a cancerous tan), I follow your command, aussie aussie oi oi oi, someone spray my nits I'll shout out me brand. aussie aussie aussie damn
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@SuperFUCKtheNWO thumbs up if your a thumbs up kinda homo
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I'm wondering now if the line about "burned you black" is about the fire-stick farming by which the Aboriginals burned three quarters of the continent into a desert?
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@declancf Yes, but you're ignoring then how there is a civilised sovereign nation on this land, and it's because WE made one!
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should be Australian national anthem
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