06/06/2026
Voices for Reconciliation: Beds Are Burning π₯
We are proud to have Beds Are Burning as the 2026 Voices for Reconciliation song.
Beds Are Burning, written and performed by Midnight Oil, is a powerful anthem that hit a chord nationally and internationally and became a defining soundtrack of the land rights movement.
The song was inspired by the Uluru-Kata Tjuta handback to the Anangu people in 1985 and was written over the course of the 1986 Blackfella/Whitefella tour the Oils embarked on with Warumpi Band throughout Western Desert and Arnhem Land communities.
Decades later, its message still resonates. The song stands as a powerful call to action to know our history and be All In to create a more just, equitable and reconciled future for us all.
Hereβs the song π https://youtu.be/ejorQVy3m8E?si=Z3Mesi0iFR7ALgyT