I don’t know how many times I sung “do you come from the land down under” when I was a teenager. It was one of those anthems that’s now a part of me. And now a part of me is being questioned.

Lawyers say ‘Down Under’ is a rip-off of the children’s classic ‘Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree’ which was written in 1934 by Melbourne music teacher, Marion Sinclair, for a Girl Guides competition.

Ok, now go read something else while I weap a pint of bitter, not-so-manly tears.

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