For National Reconciliation Week 2025, nearly 700 choirs came together to sing Solid Rock in a powerful call for reconciliation.
Voices for Reconciliation 2025: Solid Rock
About Solid Rock
Solid Rock, released by Goanna in 1982, was a call to action to the broader Australian community to understand the truth of our history and the importance of land rights. It became a classic Australian anthem, as relevant today as it was on release.
According to songwriter Shane Howard, the inspiration for the song came on a camping trip at Uluru in 1980, where he saw ‘an incredible injustice that needed to be dealt with… I had to reassess my whole relationship with the land and the landscape, and understand that we had come from somewhere else, and we had disempowered a whole race of people when we arrived.’
Thank you!
Reconciliation Australia thanks Shane Howard, Goanna Arts and Mushroom Music Publishing for their support of Voices for Reconciliation.
Words and Music by Shane Howard arranged by Catherine Mundy and Jay Turner for Reconciliation Australia exclusively for Voices for Reconciliation 2025. Publishing: Mushroom Music Publishing.
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