A Home Among the Gum Trees: the Pull of the Treechange

When the satirists Wally Johnson and Bob Brown (also known as ‘Captain Rock’) wrote the song, Give me a home among the gum trees in 1974 (which was later popularised by country singer John Williamson), they may not have anticipated that the track would become the iconic pseudo anthem it still is today (although perhaps they did; the duo first performed it in a government competition, which they did not win, in search of the new national anthem after it officially decided to scrap the rather unfortunate tune, God Save the Queen). The comedic lyrics relay the dilemma of choosing where to call home: There’s a Safeways up the corner/And a Woolies down the street/And a brand new place they’ve opened up/Where they regulate the heat/But I’d trade them all tomorrow/For a little bush retreat/Where the kookaburras call; the well-known chorus drumming home that a property in nature is the most desirable location of all, despite the luxuries of convenience available in the suburbs and cities.

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