"Goodbye Blinky Bill" is a song written and recorded by John Williamson with Bullamakanka and JohnâÂÂs daughters Ami and Georgie. The song was released in a limited edition in March 1986 as the only single from Williamson's 1986 compilation album All the Best.
The song is a conservation song, raising awareness of the decline in numbers of the Australian koala due to deforestation of eucalypts trees; with reference to an anthropomorphic koala named Blinky Bill. A$1 from each sale was donated to the Koala Preservation Society in Port Macquarie.
The song has been covered by The Wayfarers.
Side A: "Goodbye Blinky Bill" <small> (with Ami & Georgie Williamson and Bullamakanka) </small> <br/> Side B: "Koala Koala"