"These Days" was also rostered briefly on the English curriculum in some Australian high schools, something Fanning took with amazement rather than discomfort, stating that the emotional part of the song development process was the writing, rather than the performing of the song. The song was also featured on "The Hidden Toll" road trauma campaign, produced by the Victorian Transport Accident Commission, which first aired on Victorian television on 19 October 2005. Powderfinger performed "These Days" at a commemoration service for Heath Ledger, whose breakthrough film was "Two Hands". "These Days" was ranked seventh in a 2008 "The Weekend Australian" poll for the best Australian songs of the past 20 years.