Australian Bicentenary remember the colonisation as an invasion while others wanted it to focus on historical re-enactments. The Uniting Church in Australia wanted people to boycott the event unless Aboriginal rights were recognised. The official slogan was "Living Together" which emphasised the theme of multi-culturism. Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser intervened to change the motto to "The Australian Achievement" in order to be more celebratory. Bob Hawke later restored the original motto. The response from the right wing in the country was loud. The Institute of Public Affairs suggested that tradition had been sacrificed to appease a minority. The historian Geoffrey Blainey
Francesca Solleville songs against Nazism, Francoism and the Vietnam War. Equally, she supported the workers' cause ("Le Chant des ouvriers"). In 1971, she recorded with Marcel Mouloudji and Armand Mestral "La Commune en chantant", a homage to 100 years of the Paris Commune. In 1975, she released "Chants d'exil et de lutte" based on the texts of Pablo Neruda. In 1988, she celebrated the bicentenary of the French Revolution with "Musique, citoyennes !". Allain Leprest wrote the words of her album "Al Dente" (1994). In 2004, she published her autobiography, "A piena voce", written with the collaboration of Marc Legras. In 2009,