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With a number of local councils going beyond their mandate and disrespecting this nation by not wanting to celebrate Australia Day, it would be a good idea to setup a BBQs in front of said council offices and have people en masse celebrate the day and demonstrate that we don't agree with them.
Opinions please.
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If this was a move by the Aboriginal Australians, people would be able to see their stance had merit and provide support. However what we have instead is local government pandering to the SJW greenie set, engaging in bullcrap point scoring at its worst.
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the 1%er lefties destroying this country one useless issue at a time.
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Anyone who is not Aboriginal and happy to jump on the latest lefty bandwagon by spitting in the face of Australia Day need to put up or shut up.
Own land? Gift it to local indigenous. Have a decent job, one in a position of power? Step down so an indigenous person can fill that spot. Perhaps move back to the country their ancestors originated from. It is nothing more than virtue signaling from well off do gooder whites, happy to live in this land and reap all the benefits and rewards that come with it, but take the moral high ground for one week of the year to make themselves feel good. |
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I wonder how many of those councillors who voted against Australia Day will be turning up for work on Friday... Hypocrisy at its best.
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The thing that annoys me is that Capt Arthur Philip actually tried to be peaceful but it didn't exactly work out that way and has been up and down ever since. There's always someone not happy with their lot.
These 'do-gooders' are trying to make themselves relevant in any way they can and end up causing even more problems. In the past, English Generals sent many thousands of Aussies to their slaughter, yet we celebrate that day by remembering how brave those people were and the fact that they gave their lives so we could live in relative peace. I don't like Anzac Day - does that mean I can start a disruptive movement to change the day? It's history folks, nothing can change it but we should learn from it. Carrying a grudge from so many generations ago when the world was a different place simply isn't healthy. Oh by the way, I don't like Christmas Day either as my father in law was killed by a drunk driver - can we change that day too? And I'm all for a bbq outside those council chambers too! |
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Better off finding out where these pandering fools live, and set up a street party BBQ in their street, but hire a couple of bouncers to turn them away if they approach. |
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I'm not sure if anyone has really put this question to the other side other than the above mentioned grandstanding politicking that is starting to creep in the last two years - Jeez - one day of the year leave it alone.
My other suggestion would be to change the day to 1st January - the real Australia day. |
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Meh... If it offends the indigenous peoples then happy to move it. I'm not wedded to 26th.
It can be another day at the end of January, as long as it's a Friday or Monday so we still get the long weekend (which is all we really care about). |
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NAIDOC Week is for our indigenous people. So, if we cannt have Australia Day as Jan 26 then they cannt have Naidoc Week. Cuts both ways.
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If that is how you feel then fair enough. But UNTIL the date is changed (IF that were to EVER occur), 26th January is our national day.
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I'm for February 29 for Aussie Day......
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Do they have offence of the days meaning or the day's date ?
If it's the meaning then why move it as it will still have the same meaning , so why move it ! But if it's the date , well it's not the original date anyway and one date is as good as another so again why move it !
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the 'lefties' won the gay marriage trial so it was inevitable that they would need to find something new to **** up and gain their 15 seconds of fame and they have chosen to ask for Australia Day to moved, these ****ers are NEVER happy
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Changing the date won't do one damn thing to help the aboriginals. It's just an incredibly stupid thought that it will somehow make everything better.
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Go Rita......
Rita Panahi, Herald Sun January 24, 2018 10:36am http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opi...aa4e432e74edd4 Quote:
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As already pointed out if we all turn up to the local council office on Australia day there'd be no one there. But even if there was its not the employees pushing the issue its the councillors.
People seem to think the actual paid staff all meet in a dark chamber every day, plotting how to defraud struggling senior citizens of there pensions, whilst sitting in chairs made from the bones of small children that met their fate in the councils sub standard playgrounds. The real 'creeps' are the councillors, aligning themselves with political parties for matters of self interest or in a vain attempt to step into the political arena themselves. If anyones serious about the matter, hold a bbq outside the next meeting of council or better still attend said meeting... remember your apathy allows these people to get away with what they do. So who's going to visit they're next meeting of council?
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I'm one of those snowflake leftist pansies and can differentiate between the meaning, the day and the symbolism of Australia day being January 26th to the Australian psyche.
I am also sixth generation Australian. I have friends of aboriginal heritage and understand the perception from their cultural point of view. Plus I think if Australia day is celebrated as I saw many Australians do then the respect and understanding of Australian national pride being celebrated in name only, then this can happen at any other time. What cultural events celebrating Australia do the majority attend, and in what state of mind and body. Reminds me if the debacle Gallipoli cove became on Anzac day for many years. Why get drunk and embarrassing while alienating a culture on a symbolically important day for them, when it means very little to the majority Move Australia day from invasion day. JP |
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To the original owners it is not a celebration to be had.
To me the arrival of convict ancestors in Australia is not celebrated. To the folk who become citizens or receive the OAMs etc it is a celebration - so I think this is the future, for us to reflect on the good in people and to share our country with new citizens. |
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I think this is all a political a car forum, started by a usual suspect and drawing many other usual suspects.
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