‘None of these people represent me and I do not support them, ‘ Barnes said. “It was absolutely sickening to see those images to the entire song of You’re the Voice“. Australia needs to stand up for Love and Tolerance in these modern times.
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Jimmy Barnes’ songs will no longer be played at Reclaim Australia’s rallies after the rocker said he did not support the nationalist group.
Barnes, whose wife Jane was born in Thailand, is the lead singer of Cold Chisel.
On its Facebook page, Reclaim Australia said it was deeply saddened that Barnes had asked them not to plays his songs at their rallies. “A place that is open and giving”, he wrote on Tuesday night.
Reclaim Australia organisers have said they are not racist but that the rallies were “a public response to the shock of recent atrocities of “Islam’s radicals” both inside and outside of Australia”.
Cold Chisel’s best-known song Khe Sanh has become a patriotic anthem and is often named as one of the best Australian songs ever.
Two anti-Islam groups, the United Patriots Front and Reclaim Australia, have been staging rallies around Australia, brandishing Australian flags and protesting the “spread” of Islam, halal food and Asian immigration.
Reclaim what: a protester holds a sign during a march toward Parliament at a Reclaim Australia Rally in Canberra on Sunday. “It serves as a position that in fact corresponds to all sorts of certain people, really is made more solid due to multiplicity of their people”.
A video recently uploaded to The Age Facebook page also shows protestors in Adelaide playing Midnight Oil’s “Short Memory” and Gotye’s smash hit “Somebody That I Used To Know” during a rally in the South Australian capital.
Schumann said the song honours all Australians who have put themselves in harm’s way for their country.
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“It is not to be used to advance ignorance and intolerance, especially as we approach the centenary of Anzac”.
