This from Reconciliation Australia recently:
Voices for Reconciliation: Beds Are Burning
We are proud to have Beds Are Burning as the 2026 Voices for Reconciliation song.*
Beds Are Burning, written and performed by Midnight Oil, is a powerful anthem that hit a chord nationally and internationally and became a defining soundtrack of the land rights movement.
The song was inspired by the Uluru-Kata Tjuta handback to the Anangu people in 1985 and was written over the course of the 1986 Blackfella/Whitefella tour the Oils embarked on with Warumpi Band throughout Western Desert and Arnhem Land communities.
Decades later, its message still resonates. The song stands as a powerful call to action to know our history and be All In to create a more just, equitable and reconciled future for us all.
Reconciliation Australia is calling on choirs across the country to come together in song to contribute to National Reconciliation Week 2026.
The theme for NRW 2026 is All In, a call for all Australians to commit wholeheartedly to reconciliation every single day.
More information about Voices for Reconciliation.
Reconciliation Week is 27 May to 3 June.
Reconciliation Australia website.
Picture credit: one of the many downloadable resources available here on the Reconciliation Australia website. It refers to National Reconciliation Week commencing 27 May.
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