moorey
call me Mia
Totally agree on the Mabo occasion, just can’t see the winter date appeasing people, but 100% on it not being up to a bunch of whities to decide.
Australia Day, is January 26th the right day?
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Scotty T
Walks the walk
Albo is on tele and reiterating his suggestion of holding a referendum for constitutional recognition of Aboriginal Australians on Jan 26th effectively keeping the date but changing the reason.
I'm not sold on it, doing that on Feb 13th to align with the apology would be more respectful and actually change the reason.
The sooner people come to grips with the fact the 26th marks an invasion, establishing a penal colony, and is in no way a reason to celebrate, the better.
I'm not sold on it, doing that on Feb 13th to align with the apology would be more respectful and actually change the reason.
The sooner people come to grips with the fact the 26th marks an invasion, establishing a penal colony, and is in no way a reason to celebrate, the better.
moorey
call me Mia
Because she’s a disgusting human who thinks that only biblical options matter...even the contradictory ones.
edit. I’m not equating your ambivalence to ignorance, I also have no attachment to the date, but I fully recognize that it does to many, so it’s not about me.
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god doesnt make mistakes when he made you gender X. then why did he make me feel like gender Y? to me her position on this is more proof for the non existence of the god she thinks of than the babel fish. maybe not all gods, but certainly the one she likes to portray
Nambra
Definitely should have gone to specsavers
None of the aforementioned dates will cut it with the Indigenous. They are all dates when “white man” did something here, and without researching it, I doubt Aboriginals even had a calendar before Europeans arrived. Why would they want to celebrate a day with no cultural importance to them?
I’m with @moorey, let them decide, or mutually agree on a date with as little European historical context as possible, so that it only has meaning from now and carries with it the spirit of unity only. Leave reconciliation and healing for another day, maybe even the 26th of January so it doesn’t become insignificant over time. It will mean little to many in practical terms, but a lot to us as a nation.
I’m with @moorey, let them decide, or mutually agree on a date with as little European historical context as possible, so that it only has meaning from now and carries with it the spirit of unity only. Leave reconciliation and healing for another day, maybe even the 26th of January so it doesn’t become insignificant over time. It will mean little to many in practical terms, but a lot to us as a nation.
Scotty T
Walks the walk
Bible bashers are worse cherry pickers than climate deniers. Margaret Court is a fuck your feelings kinda guy who I'm sure never considered stoning her children to death for disrespect as the bible suggests, such hypocrisy. Kezza is a legend, his contribution to Aus far outweighs any bigotted sports baller.
Plankosaurus
Spongeplank Dalepantski
I still think a day without a date is the way forward. It's hard to pin a Monday to a historical event, and we can just get on with celebrating the country for what it is.
Once upon a time I really dug the Australia Day thing, mostly because I'm proud of who we are as a whole. It's marred for me now knowing what I do now about the significance of the date for others (not their fault btw). The sooner we get on with shuffling it, the sooner I can get on with enjoying it.
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Once upon a time I really dug the Australia Day thing, mostly because I'm proud of who we are as a whole. It's marred for me now knowing what I do now about the significance of the date for others (not their fault btw). The sooner we get on with shuffling it, the sooner I can get on with enjoying it.
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just not a thursday. I never could get the hang of thursdays.
Plankosaurus
Spongeplank Dalepantski
Nambra
Definitely should have gone to specsavers
Au contraire, it would be completely Australian to take the Friday off and have a 4 day weekend.
ashes_mtb
Has preferences
Agree it’d be a good time of year but ideally the date should relate to something. So on a date in October let’s fuck off our remaining attachments to Britain, go republic, install an indigenous elder as our ceremonial head of state, and then we we can go from there.
rangersac
Medically diagnosed OMS
As it stands it should be Jan 1 I reckon, so you could shift New Years Day to New Years Eve or piss off NYD to another time later in the year. I'm all for a PH somewhere in the second half of the year though as there's no national PH in between Queens Birthday and Christmas which sucks arse given PHs come thick and fast in the first half of the year.
we already get labour day so october doesnt really need another holiday. decided to see which states dont get that day. According to info.australia.gov.au, NSW gets labour day on monday october 4 this year. Queensland gets instead the queens birthday holiday on monday october 5. TAS, Vic and NT dont get either version of that monday off
Without wanting to start a shit fight, what is the end game for all this?
If we change the date, how will that help the Aborigines in poverty, drug addiction, poor health?.....
Yeah, they were invaded, and its bad, BUT how will cancelling Australia Day help them???
When Kevin Rudd said 'sorry', werent we meant to move on?
If we change the date, how will that help the Aborigines in poverty, drug addiction, poor health?.....
Yeah, they were invaded, and its bad, BUT how will cancelling Australia Day help them???
When Kevin Rudd said 'sorry', werent we meant to move on?
Plankosaurus
Spongeplank Dalepantski
We celebrate a date that represents them being dispossessed, it's a yearly kick in the teeth.
Probably would achieve 1/5 of fuck all in terms of repairing poverty etc, but would go a long way to letting them move on. See my point above about ze Germans...
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