I don’t care. There is never a ‘right’ day to do it. Memorials of negative activities in history are just as important as positive ones – in fact a modern and mature nation would be able to understand that there is nuance to everything and nothing is purely good or bad.
antysyd on
A survey on Reddit. And you complain about Resolve sampling methods?
Dawnshot_ on
Eh most reputable polling shows more than majority support for keeping the day as is
Reddit will more skew progressive
gin_enema on
Everyone has the question wrong. 26th Jan will always be commemorated as the day the first fleet began the colony of New South Wales. Aboriginal people’s will always find that a day of mourning for obvious reasons. Most will celebrate it, some will mourn. It’s a free country so people should stop going on like little bitches that people don’t see it the same way they do. Do what you want.
The question people should be asking is whether we should have an additional day AS WELL to celebrate the founding of Australia by Australians as opposed to 26 Jan which is a British colonial achievement.
Shockanabi on
I’m too lazy to make a poll but I’d also be interested in knowing about peoples’ attitudes to celebrating on the 26th and how that relates to wanting to change the date.
Like, I’m for changing the date, but I recognise that it can’t happen until a solid majority of Australians want it to. Until then I’ll attend an Aus day event on the 26th if I’m invited. I’m sure others take a more principled approach.
DBrowny on
Makes no difference to me. I just care about the fact that if Australia day was ever moved, to any other day in the year, it would get protested **MUCH HARDER** than it is today because it was never about changing the date, it is entirely about removing it altogether. Much easier to achieve that when it is already shown to have no ties to any specific day and instead was just pulled out of thin air.
Find me one single ‘change the date’ protestor who can a) name a single date they propose it be on and b) would promise to never complain about Australia day again under penalty of selling their funko pop collection.
You wont.
Perfect-Werewolf-102 on
It would be interesting to see this by voting intention as well, which could then double as a poll for that too
bismarcktasmania on
I don’t care about Australia Day at all, but I do love public holidays. Make it 25 or 27 January so it’s not really tethered to anything historical aside from providing the traditional long weekend before school holidays end.
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I don’t care. There is never a ‘right’ day to do it. Memorials of negative activities in history are just as important as positive ones – in fact a modern and mature nation would be able to understand that there is nuance to everything and nothing is purely good or bad.
A survey on Reddit. And you complain about Resolve sampling methods?
Eh most reputable polling shows more than majority support for keeping the day as is
Reddit will more skew progressive
Everyone has the question wrong. 26th Jan will always be commemorated as the day the first fleet began the colony of New South Wales. Aboriginal people’s will always find that a day of mourning for obvious reasons. Most will celebrate it, some will mourn. It’s a free country so people should stop going on like little bitches that people don’t see it the same way they do. Do what you want.
The question people should be asking is whether we should have an additional day AS WELL to celebrate the founding of Australia by Australians as opposed to 26 Jan which is a British colonial achievement.
I’m too lazy to make a poll but I’d also be interested in knowing about peoples’ attitudes to celebrating on the 26th and how that relates to wanting to change the date.
Like, I’m for changing the date, but I recognise that it can’t happen until a solid majority of Australians want it to. Until then I’ll attend an Aus day event on the 26th if I’m invited. I’m sure others take a more principled approach.
Makes no difference to me. I just care about the fact that if Australia day was ever moved, to any other day in the year, it would get protested **MUCH HARDER** than it is today because it was never about changing the date, it is entirely about removing it altogether. Much easier to achieve that when it is already shown to have no ties to any specific day and instead was just pulled out of thin air.
Find me one single ‘change the date’ protestor who can a) name a single date they propose it be on and b) would promise to never complain about Australia day again under penalty of selling their funko pop collection.
You wont.
It would be interesting to see this by voting intention as well, which could then double as a poll for that too
I don’t care about Australia Day at all, but I do love public holidays. Make it 25 or 27 January so it’s not really tethered to anything historical aside from providing the traditional long weekend before school holidays end.