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Advance Australia Fair

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Advance Australia Fair
Peter Dodds McCormick · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

Advance Australia Fair is a national anthem[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of national anthem entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,580 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Australia[3]
  • Instance of: musical work/composition[4]
  • Composer: Peter Dodds McCormick[5]
  • Genre: anthem[6]
  • Commons category: National anthem of Australia[7]
  • Language of work or name: Australian English[8], English[9]
  • Country of origin: Australia[10]
  • Inception: November 1878[11]
  • Lyricist: Peter Dodds McCormick[12]
  • Tonality: B-flat major[13]
  • Work available at URL: http://dfat.gov.au/about-australia/land-its-people/Pages/australias-national-symbols.aspx[14]
  • Applies to jurisdiction: Australia[15]
  • Title: Advance Australia Fair[16]
  • First line: Australians all let us rejoice,[17]
  • Last line: Advance Australia Fair.[18]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Christian Hymns[19]
  • Copyright status: public domain[20]
  • Form of creative work: hymn tune[21]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[22]

  • Community tags: national anthems[23]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 0e29b544-782c-32c3-932b-78b101de56b7[24]

Why It Matters

Advance Australia Fair has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Related Entities

Australia public domain

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . hymnary.org. Retrieved . hymnary.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Genre → anthem
    Local thumb → —
    Tonality → B-flat major
    Language of work or name → Australian English, English
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