Get Your Nerdy #Auspol Party Ragin’ With This Musical Version of Noel Pearson’s Whitlam Speech

For some reason, Q&A is sometimes accused of being dry and uninteresting. It’s crazy, we know. But apparently Tony Jones’ witticisms, Malcolm Turnbull’s leather jackets and actual laser beams aren’t enough to make debates on politics and social affairs interesting to the kids. At this point it’s safe to say they’re raking in the majority of their youth demographic from begrudging uni students studying media or politics boning up on wanky things to casually drop in their tutes the next day.

But that’s all about to change. In an effort to stay “hip” and “cool” and “with it” like the ABC’s more successful youth brand Triple J, Q&A have pulled their very own Like A Version session with Noel Pearson’s legendary speech from Gough Whitlam’s memorial service. To play out their final episode of the year, they asked national choral group The Australian Voices to lay down the sick beats.

Why listen to a noted Indigenous leader deliver a poetic elegy, when you could instead hear a bunch of dorky white kids cram his words into a rhythm that sounds liked it’s been plucked straight from The Da Vinci Code? This is bigger than the time Pendulum covered the ABC theme song. This one’s going to number one in the Hottest 100, for sure.