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We have a hit!


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Watch the full video above. If you have a moment please also use our new 'ring and request' tool which enables you to ring your local radio station to request the song. Every time its played, thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands of people will hear your message on the airwaves. To keep it in the charts, you can still buy the track to the right of the screen.

Media interest in our song has been extensive, in Australia and overseas:

A song about racial reconciliation with the Aboriginal minority has become the fourth-biggest-selling recording in Australia, even though it is available only as a download from the Web.

In Australia, From Apology, a Hit Song Grows
The New York Times (29/4/2008)

I will never be able to fully explain the experience of watching — and feeling — a sea of grief collide with a wave of hope. If anything was going to come close, it was hearing Rudd's "sorry" words in a version of the Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly song From Little Things Big Things Grow, which I've been listening to on high rotation in the past few days.

From a little sorry, big things may grow
The Age (26/4/2008)

Federal Arts Minister Peter Garrett, the former frontman for the band Midnight Oil, said the new song was a soundtrack for all Australians.

Australian musicians launch pop song inspired by apology...
The Canadian Press (21/4/2008)

We have a hit!

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Indigenous Reconciliation

Haven't bought From Little Things Big Things Grow by the GetUp Mob yet? Buy online to support the GetUp Reconciliation Fund.

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Ring And Request

Ring And Request

Help keep the song and its message in the charts, call your local radio station and request the song!

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Media

The New York Times

In Australia, From Apology, a Hit Song Grows Tim Johnston

Courier Mail

Single Samples Rudd, Keating Anna Edwards

The Daily Telegraph

The protest song is finally back Kathy McCabe

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