The Socially Conscious Movement of the 70's had an impact and left a lasting impression.
As great as the music in that Midnight Oil song is, the deeper more powerful meaning behind it commemorates a Nation's decision to come to terms with it's past, in order to move forward.
The "Little Thing" continued to grow from the restoration of Land Rights for single band, to a Treaty between whites and the Aboriginal Peoples, to the Honoring of The First People through song, dance & ceremony ushering in the New Millennium
until it became the Center-Piece of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics
**walks away whistling; "from little things, big things grow... ...from little things big things grow"