When in January 1976 the Fraser Government restored the use of “God Save the Queen” as Australia’s alternate national anthem, the London Daily Telegraph editorially welcomed the decision. Although admitting that Britain could “no longer act as chief investor or market protector or nurse” to Australia and New Zealand, it commented: We share with the Australians and New Zealanders a common parentage: we are of the same family ... And now, at a very dark time for us when everything seems to be going wrong for us and all certainties are in doubt, we hear from the other end of the earth a resounding symbolic reaffirmation of belief in the values and loyalties which were once our own and will—God willing—be ours one day again ... We may learn from down under that self-respect does not reside in vulgar novelty, or rude disrespect for what we were and still are.