Australia Day song playlist: AC/DC, Missy Higgins, Hilltop Hoods

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They are the anthems that unite us, arm-in-arm, voices raised to the skies as we loudly proclaim this Great Southern Land our Island Home.

Music married with lyrics that have somehow managed to distil a sense of what it is to be Australian in a three and a half minute pop song as Down Under or I Still Call Australia Home have done for decades.

There are the “classics” from the Australian songbook which have soundtracked a million gatherings on our sporting fields or backyard barbecues from AC/DC’s It’s A Long Way To The Top through to Throw Your Arms Around Me by Hunters and Collectors.

Our songwriters are magicians when fashioning their commentary and observation of what makes us tick or bringing our streets and suburbs and wide open roads to musical life, whether via Paul Kelly’s melancholic love story in To Her Door or the real estate realities of Courtney Barnett’s Depreston.

While we have long claimed to have ridden on rock’s back to the global stage, Australians just love a great pop song from as far back as Daddy Cool’s Eagle Rock – surely overdue for its TikTok viral revival – through to the perfection of The Veronicas’ Untouched.

And we have much to celebrate – and listen to – from our vibrant First Nations artists. There is ARIA Award winning surf rockers King Stingray right through to uncompromising hip hop commentators A.B. Original.

Here’s is the playlist you need to soundtrack your Australia Day activities, whether they be celebration or contemplation.

THE ULTIMATE AUSTRALIA DAY PLAYLIST

1. Great Southern Land, Icehouse

2. Down Under, Men at Work

3. Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia), GANGgajang

4. You’re The Voice, John Farnham

5. Solid Rock, Goanna

6. My Island Home, Christine Anu

7. Milkumana, King Stingray

8. Wide Open Road, The Triffids

9. Wish You Well, Baker Boy and Bernard Fanning

10. Boys In Town, Divinyls

11. The Nosebleed Section, Hilltop Hoods

12. Streets Of Your Town, The Go-Betweens

13. Better In Blak, Thelma Plum

14. Flame Trees, Cold Chisel

15. Under The Milky Way, The Church

16. Treaty, Yothu Yindi

17. It’s A Long Way To The Top, AC/DC

18. The Dead Heart, Midnight Oil

19. To Her Door, Paul Kelly

20. Untouched, The Veronicas

21. From Little Things, Big Things Grow, Electric Fields

22. Run To Paradise, The Choirboys

23. Pash, Kate Ceberano

24. Errol, Australian crawl

25. Eagle Rock, Daddy Cool

26. Throw Your Arms Around Me, Hunters and Collectors

27. Depreston, Courtney Barnett

28. My Happiness, Powderfinger

29. Scar, Missy Higgins

30. True Blue, John Williamson

31. Friday On My Mind, The Easybeats

32. January 26, A.B. Original feat. Dan Sultan

33. My People, The Presets

34. The Horses, Daryl Braithwaites

35. Blackfella/Whitefella, Warumpi Band

36. I Am Australian, The Seekers

37. Walking On A Dream, Empire of the Sun

38. Tojo, Hoodoo Gurus

39. Endless Summer, The Jezabels

40. Adore, Amy Shark

41. Another Australian Day, Troy Cassar-Daley

42. Down City Streets, Archie Roach

43. Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain), INXS

44. The Less I Know The Better, Tame Impala

45. Our Country, Illy

46. A Pub With No Beer, Slim Dusty

47. Sorrento Moon, Tina Arena

48. In The Summertime, Thirsty Merc

49. Pub Feed, The Chats

50. I Still Call Australia Home, Peter Allen

Originally published as Australia Day song playlist: AC/DC, Missy Higgins, Hilltop Hoods