Under the Milky Way – how a 'beautiful accident' of a song was born and became an anthem

  • Written by: Chris Gibson, Professor of Geography, University of Wollongong
Under the Milky Way – how a 'beautiful accident' of a song was born and became an anthemShutterstock (elements of this image furnished by NASA)

Smiths Lake is a languid tidal inlet on the Australian east coast, flanked by gentle slopes of thick, eucalypt rainforest. Since time immemorial, this has been Worimi Aboriginal Country. Across a mile of shallow sandbars, warm seawater flows, twice a day. An eternal planetary rhythm fills and...

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