I miss the days of Australia day parties by the pool listening to the triple J hottest 100
Shockanabi on
>And when we finally understand that diversity and community can never be genuinely celebrated on a day built on the pain and loss of Black and Brown people.
Well it sounds like she thinks that celebrating Australia Day at all is inherently evil, so not sure she’ll be satisfied with changing the date.
theballsdick on
I have a lot of sympathy for the first nations people. It must be horrible having your way of life and culture replaced by forgieners who destroy what was once a potent sense of identity and belonging. I can’t imagine what that is like, I love Australia but think Jan 26 as a celebration is a bit ick.Â
Anachronism59 on
To avoid the debate just don’t have it. It serves no function other that leading to endless and repetitive debate and providing a natural bookend to summer holidays.
Just create a non event holiday that gives us a long weekend in Jan or early Feb. People can use it anyway they choose. No official commemoration whatsoever.
The Brits do it with ‘August Bank Holiday”.
the__distance on
If its that important to these socialist alternative types why dont they propose a new date that all Australians can celebrate instead of asking us to all participate in a national self flagellation ritual each January 26th?
Don’t make your problem my problem
Still_Ad_164 on
Surely Brittany can link us to the location of the Utopia she seeks. Listing the faults of new arrivals only stands up when one recognises the faults of the original occupants. Failure to mention pre-contact and post-contact misogyny and inter-tribal and intra-tribal brutality is editing for effect. When truth telling is claimed to be of vital importance then all the truth has to be told. Not just that version that satisfies one perspective or one’s concept of reality. No doubt that maltreatment has occurred, much of which is unacceptable now but was acceptable ‘in the day’. A retrospective morality has to recognise that mores have changed and that using past actions to represent current attitudes is malicious. Rather than concentrate on why we shouldn’t celebrate Australia Day, we should look at it as an opportunity to celebrate unity and diversity while offering constructive suggestions to improve everybody’s lot. Playing the one-sided blame game helps no one.
Jealous-Hedgehog-734 on
>How does one hold both these truths?
People subordinated their other identities to the notion that they where Australians first, and many of them even came to really enjoyed it. 🤫
Bob_Spud on
“**It’s a neat story, polished over decades, carefully and deliberately packaged to feel reasonable.”** ….
*it is more than that its rewriting history.*
Since 1788 Australia Day has been mostly celebrated as a celebration of when it become a British colony. Australia Day has only been officially recognised nationwide since 1994. Since the 1990s its history has been rewritten to exclude its colonial roots.
We should be celebrating the way that other former British colonies do, celebrate our independence from colonial Britain (3 March 1986) or the birth of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 Jan 1901.
BarneyBerker on
Most Australians are proud to celebrate Australia Day & keep it on January 26th.
End of story.
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I miss the days of Australia day parties by the pool listening to the triple J hottest 100
>And when we finally understand that diversity and community can never be genuinely celebrated on a day built on the pain and loss of Black and Brown people.
Well it sounds like she thinks that celebrating Australia Day at all is inherently evil, so not sure she’ll be satisfied with changing the date.
I have a lot of sympathy for the first nations people. It must be horrible having your way of life and culture replaced by forgieners who destroy what was once a potent sense of identity and belonging. I can’t imagine what that is like, I love Australia but think Jan 26 as a celebration is a bit ick.Â
To avoid the debate just don’t have it. It serves no function other that leading to endless and repetitive debate and providing a natural bookend to summer holidays.
Just create a non event holiday that gives us a long weekend in Jan or early Feb. People can use it anyway they choose. No official commemoration whatsoever.
The Brits do it with ‘August Bank Holiday”.
If its that important to these socialist alternative types why dont they propose a new date that all Australians can celebrate instead of asking us to all participate in a national self flagellation ritual each January 26th?
Don’t make your problem my problem
Surely Brittany can link us to the location of the Utopia she seeks. Listing the faults of new arrivals only stands up when one recognises the faults of the original occupants. Failure to mention pre-contact and post-contact misogyny and inter-tribal and intra-tribal brutality is editing for effect. When truth telling is claimed to be of vital importance then all the truth has to be told. Not just that version that satisfies one perspective or one’s concept of reality. No doubt that maltreatment has occurred, much of which is unacceptable now but was acceptable ‘in the day’. A retrospective morality has to recognise that mores have changed and that using past actions to represent current attitudes is malicious. Rather than concentrate on why we shouldn’t celebrate Australia Day, we should look at it as an opportunity to celebrate unity and diversity while offering constructive suggestions to improve everybody’s lot. Playing the one-sided blame game helps no one.
>How does one hold both these truths?
People subordinated their other identities to the notion that they where Australians first, and many of them even came to really enjoyed it. 🤫
“**It’s a neat story, polished over decades, carefully and deliberately packaged to feel reasonable.”** ….
*it is more than that its rewriting history.*
Since 1788 Australia Day has been mostly celebrated as a celebration of when it become a British colony. Australia Day has only been officially recognised nationwide since 1994. Since the 1990s its history has been rewritten to exclude its colonial roots.
We should be celebrating the way that other former British colonies do, celebrate our independence from colonial Britain (3 March 1986) or the birth of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 Jan 1901.
Most Australians are proud to celebrate Australia Day & keep it on January 26th.
End of story.