The Null Device

News has emerged that in the early 70s, Australia's hip soft-lefty PM Gough Whitlam asked Burt Bacharach to write a new national anthem for Australia. Whitlam was a fan of Bacharach, who penned a great many hits of the Swingin' 60s, and asked him to enter a contest to write a new Australian national anthem, half in jest. Bacharach declined.

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