We need more than tinkering with our national anthem

Our PM’s call for Australians to embrace the change of a word to our national anthem from ‘young’ to ‘one’ is sensible. But it is hardly inspiring, nor does it give us a visionary anthem. The words ‘wealth for toil’ is another example of how irrelevant our anthem is. This phrase belongs in a bygone period. Ask any farmer today if their ‘wealth’ from this year’s crop was due to ‘toil’ and you would be told it had much more to do with technology, science and marketing. China for example has already abandoned ‘wealth for toil’ as its goal, prefer…