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Andrew Stafford

Musos battle pollies, big tech to protect their songs

Australian artists say they're increasingly troubled by political misappropriation of their music. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

In 1998, as a fledgling One Nation party prepared to contest its first election campaign, Pauline Hanson's team selected a song they thought best embodied their standard-bearer to introduce her at rallies and events.

The song was I Am Australian, recorded the year before by the Seekers' Judith Durham, Air Supply's Russell Hitchcock and Yothu Yindi's Dr M Yunupingu, an impassioned plea for unity at a time of racial disharmony.

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