Happy Australia Day

[stui magpie]

Happy Straya Day.

Hope you had a great day.

By the amount of traffic on the Hume earlier, lots of people went camping for a long weekend.

[eddiesmith]

Happy Australia Day, a great day to celebrate every year on January 26.

[David]

[eddiesmith]

73% of indigenous Australians said they’re happy for Australia Day to remain

Seems the greenies are trying to tell people what they should be offended by again

[stui magpie]

[pietillidie]

Happy Tony Abbott Day, where we get to go glory in Australia's greatest ever prime minister, who fought heroically on the beaches of the North Shore, mowing down inner city Greens with a barrage of spittle as they left cafes, wheat grass almond milk lattes in both hands, having played a fabled role in the epoch-defining battles of Children Overboard I, Children Overboard II—Afghanistan and Iraq, Climate Science Overboard, Mining Windfall Tax Overboard, Proper NBN Overboard and Children Overboard III—The Defence of Pell.

So, drape your British flag with Southern Cross over your melanomas and go overboard for the great freedoms Tone has fought for!

[ronrat]

I would abolish it and not replace it. That will shut everyone up. The protaganists on both sides will be pilloried but who cares. BLM and proud boys, Bloody hell.

[David]

I feel like this thread is even worse than usual, well done everyone!

[eddiesmith]

I blame the Greens. I hope they’ll fine the Victorian senator who blatantly disregarded Covid restrictions

[watt price tully]

It’s going to change as the old farts like Stui and Eddie still have their head in the sand.

Invasion Day / Survival day is not Australia Day. The younger generations will change it like they have with marriage inequality. They’re much more inclusive than a few conservative rednecks and dinosaurs and despite the right wing trolling of giving the religious bigot Margaret Court another award.


Change is gunna happen baby. Like Trump losing it’s happening baby, it’s happening. As sure as night follows day.

[think positive]

[eddiesmith]

So we just change everything the professional protesters demand?

Over 70% of Aboriginals polled said they still think of Jan 26 as Australia Day, not invasion day. Of course the younger greenie crowd think differently, they always need something to bitch about. Give in here and they’ll just move on to the next issue they think needs changing.

Deciding it’s too hard is the same attitude police had to stopping the BLM protest, can’t upset anyone, how great did that turn out for Victorians?

[David]

Can you post a link to the poll you’re citing, Eddie? I couldn’t find it, but I did see this article from four years back, which found that 54% of Indigenous Australians wanted the date changed and that only 23% felt positive about the day: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/26/most-indigenous-australians-want-date-and-name-of-australia-day-changed-poll-finds

[eddiesmith]

Roy Morgan

“ Perhaps most surprisingly amongst all the arguments about what the day should be known as is the views of people who consider themselves Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. Amongst this group 73% say the day should be known as ‘Australia Day’ compared to only 27% that say it should be known as ‘Invasion Day’ – a significantly higher level of support for ‘Australia Day’ than amongst other Australians.”

https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/8621-roy-morgan-survey-australia-day-january-25-2021-202101250620

[pietillidie]

Also, we need to add stripes to the stars and Union Jack of the Aussie flag so the world knows what a brave, independent nation really looks like!

Oh, and a silhouette of Tony Abbott's ears!