Songfacts®:

• Bush wrote this about the situation between the white Australians and the aborigines who were being wiped out by man's greed for uranium. White men were digging up aboriginal sacred grounds to get to the plutonium needed to build weapons that could one day destroy everything.
• The title comes from a religious period of time in the aboriginal culture known as Dreamtime, a time when animals and humans take the same form. Dreamtime is also known as The Dreaming.
• Traditional aboriginal instruments were used on this song. The didgeridoo was played by Australian popular entertainer Rolf Harris. He linked up with Bush once again for her 2005 album, Aerial, when he played the didgeridoo again as well as contributing vocals to the tracks "An Architect's Dream" and "The Painter's Link."
• The Dreaming was the first album Bush produced on her own, a rare feat in 1982 when most artists were using outside producers. Bush, though, knew exactly how she wanted the album to sound and knew how to accomplish it, so it made sense to be her own producer. >>

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• The Dreaming album found Kate Bush showcasing a huge range of vocal approaches such as the exaggerated Australian accent on its title track. "I'm able to oversee the whole thing in a way that I can treat myself almost like an actor on a stage," she told Mojo magazine. "It's not just being a singer. The voice is just part of trying to create an atmosphere or a little story or a picture, and it's very much (about) the emotional content."
• English bird impersonator Percy Edwards provided sheep noises for the track.
• Bang! goes another kanga
  On the bonnet of the van
  
  The thud of kanga hitting car at the beginning of the song was done in the car park. "Kate was round the back slamming the door until we got the right bang," assistant engineer Teri Reid told Uncut magazine. "We used a red Alfa Romeo."