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| posted on January 26th, 2012 at 03:48 PM |
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Australia day overblown?
Sometimes the hype of Australia day seems overblown to me as it really relates to NSW colonisation rather than Australia becoming a nation of
federated states "Australia" in 1901. Dutch sailors visited the west coast over a hundred years before Capt.Cook so Jan.26th is not a big deal. It
seems to me the convict fleets setting up a British penal colony in NSW isn't when the Nation Australia came into being, that happened in 1901, maybe
I am showing my one-eyed W.A. colours but from thousands of kilometres away westward from Sydney it all seems Sydney-centric! (I appologise if I upset
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and the chinese 200 years before the dutch....
so where do we put our hearts
how about where we now what really transpired.......
Happy Australia Day!
Keeping it real !
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| posted on January 26th, 2012 at 05:33 PM |
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Is it today?
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and the chinese 200 years before the dutch....
so where do we put our hearts
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And what about the Aborigines?
Sorry
I read it on samba, so it must be correct.
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| posted on January 26th, 2012 at 07:16 PM |
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and the chinese 200 years before the dutch....
so where do we put our hearts
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And what about the Aborigines?
Sorry
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they were already here...
its a good day for Young Australians... to be bought up with... IMHO..
Maybe be called Australian Flag day... lol
Australia Day Long Weekend was better... for most people and industries that have to shut down for one day..
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| posted on January 26th, 2012 at 07:19 PM |
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Australia day.... celebrating being a part of one of the best nations in the world 
... simple.
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| posted on January 26th, 2012 at 07:40 PM |
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Getting more and more overblown and for the wrong reasons too...
SHame really...
http://www.theage.com.au/wa-news/australia-day-car-flag-flyers-racist-2012012...
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| posted on January 26th, 2012 at 08:32 PM |
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AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE
spent the day rebuilding my daughters 1.8l 20 valve golf motor then went home and had a few beers with some prawns.......
OY OY OY!!
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We were discussing this in the car today with the 12 year old.
In short I think the intention is that it celebrates the beginning of 'modern Australia'. It wasn't the discovery of the country, it wasn't the
first inhabitants, it wasn't federation but it certainly was the start of everything that is around us today. Given that federation occurred on the
new year, perhaps it was just that we wanted an extra holiday! The fact that it happened in Sydney doesn't change the fact that it began the whole
country as we know it. The media and the harbour obviously help focus coverage on Sydney, but that's just life.
The country we live in is fabulous and we should celebrate the wonderful things about it, but as in almost all stories there are winners and losers,
and in this case the losers were the Aboriginals, who were conquered, not in your normal theatre of war, but by gradual removal of their land and way
of life and also through disease. Obviously historically there were a lot of wrongs done to them, and we as a society continue to live with the
consequences today.
As Joel notes, the concern is what is being celebrated and whether it is being hijacked. After all, unless you're an Aborigine you're essentially an
immigrant, so the things that we should celebrate should be things like our (generally favourable) climate, our natural resources, our wealth, our
system of goverment (no matter how flawed still much better than most), the freedoms we take for granted that most don't have and the relative lack
of class structure which is still a major inhibitor of people's ability to lift themselves out of the mire in other countries.
So we have lots to be grateful for, and the 26th is as good a day as any, but Australia should be a place of inclusiveness, and if people want to use
it to push an "us and them" agenda, then they are idiots and are probably blind to their own background, and the backgrounds of people they know.
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| posted on January 26th, 2012 at 09:46 PM |
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Australia day.... celebrating being a part of one of the best nations in the world
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| posted on January 26th, 2012 at 09:56 PM |
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posted by Craig S
We were discussing this in the car today with the 12 year old.
In short I think the intention is that it celebrates the beginning of 'modern Australia'. It wasn't the discovery of the country, it wasn't the
first inhabitants, it wasn't federation but it certainly was the start of everything that is around us today. Given that federation occurred on the
new year, perhaps it was just that we wanted an extra holiday! The fact that it happened in Sydney doesn't change the fact that it began the whole
country as we know it. The media and the harbour obviously help focus coverage on Sydney, but that's just life.
The country we live in is fabulous and we should celebrate the wonderful things about it, but as in almost all stories there are winners and losers,
and in this case the losers were the Aboriginals, who were conquered, not in your normal theatre of war, but by gradual removal of their land and way
of life and also through disease. Obviously historically there were a lot of wrongs done to them, and we as a society continue to live with the
consequences today.
As Joel notes, the concern is what is being celebrated and whether it is being hijacked. After all, unless you're an Aborigine you're essentially an
immigrant, so the things that we should celebrate should be things like our (generally favourable) climate, our natural resources, our wealth, our
system of goverment (no matter how flawed still much better than most), the freedoms we take for granted that most don't have and the relative lack
of class structure which is still a major inhibitor of people's ability to lift themselves out of the mire in other countries.
So we have lots to be grateful for, and the 26th is as good a day as any, but Australia should be a place of inclusiveness, and if people want to use
it to push an "us and them" agenda, then they are idiots and are probably blind to their own background, and the backgrounds of people they know.
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I mostly agree Craig but I think that, although federation occurred on Jan 1 1901 (an awkward date for an Australia day public holiday), the first
meeting of an Australian parliament didn't occur until the 9th of May 1901. It was really only then that the colonies became a nation and as such
should be our national day. Think about it, with the amount of bitching going on between them at the time, despite the declaration of federation, if
some of them decided to not turn up to that first meeting, things could be radically different today.
I reckon that's a perfect time of year to slot one in and it takes the emphasis away from the whole "discovery/invasion" aspect.
Regards,
Matt.
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Good point Matt, you put it better than me, all states have their "colonisation" day, in W.A. it is Foundation day, 4th June, when W.A. was
proclaimed as the Swan river colony in 1829 and we have a holiday now for it but W.A. was settled before that in Albany in 1826 as an outpost of
N.S.W. and a penal colony to boot but there is no holiday celebrated for that day. I wholeheartedly agree with Craig and others and the day is needed
to give thanks for how lucky we are etc but think maybe it is the wrong day to have it on one states colony day, 9th May sounds good to me! I feel we
need to do a lot more to alleviate the damage caused to Aboriginal Australian culture since europeans came and get their life expectancy a lot
higher.
Hope you all had a great day anyhow, I did with my family and am grateful to be living in Aussie! (driving a bug)
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Kids went out and partied, wife worked, I worked the morning
then watched a bit of the cricket in the arvo, good day for the Oz in Adelaide! You don't see two double tons that often, well
done Punter and Pup! Another day in paradise!
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| posted on January 27th, 2012 at 06:21 AM |
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, the first meeting of an Australian parliament didn't occur until the 9th of May 1901. It was really only then that the colonies became a nation and
as such should be our national day.
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But then it would be centered around Melbourne.
I read it on samba, so it must be correct.
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I think that it should be calleed Bogan's Day and you could run around pissed with no shirt on throwing rubbish everywhere and being obnoxious.
But they already do that.
I read it on samba, so it must be correct.
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I think that it should be calleed Bogan's Day and you could run around pissed with no shirt on throwing rubbish everywhere and being obnoxious.
But they already do that.
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I agree completely, it's shit like that that keeps me inside on Australia day and off the roads.
Too many dickheads drinking and driving, hooning along in their commodores with Australian flags hanging off the windows.
Even when I was working on Zelda out on the street, some idiot in a Holden Ute with this massive f*$k off flag hanging off the back was drifting
around corners.
Some people just see it as a massive piss up, and I guess that is what Australian's from the Y-generation do these days. Everyday for them is a piss
up and it annoys me greatly...
I'm one of the very few 17 year olds that can actually say they don't touch alcohol. But I know for a fact that some of my mates who are quite bogan
live on the stuff. I worry every weekend that I won't hear from one of them on Monday due to something fatal happening on our roads.
Getting off topic, but yeah. I agree with AA003, yesterday is just a day where everyone can be as bogan as they want and not get into trouble. Fun for
everyone, right?
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Yesterday was a great day for me, friends and fanily around a few red drinks, a few amber sangers and lots of laughs and good food on the barbie, oh,
and telling lots of lies that we all accepted as gospell truth. The one thing I noticed was the almost total acceptance of the last bit of the
Australia Day adds, "the best bit is we can get up and do it all tomorrow". Just because there are a few (yes, by far the minority) "bogans" out
there carrying on like idiots dosn't mean we cant be proud of this great land and celebrate our good fortune to be living here.
While on a recent drive in the wench a fella comented on my Australian flag I was flying off the back, telling me that he used to have two hanging off
his caravan but his son told him to take them off as it wasn't Australia Day, so off they came, I told him to give his son the nessage that it's
Australia Day every day. Fly the flag.
Here endeth the lesson.
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Donn,
I agree that everyone can have a good time and do whatever they want, but just be careful. Obviously everyone would have had a good day yesterday, I
know I did, I got Zelda one step closer to being back on the road and that to me is as exciting as it gets. You're right, bogans are the minority and
most people just stay at home with friends and family and have a barbecue, I have nothing against that whatsoever (I did this myself), it's just
those that act like idiots out on the streets.
Take what happened last year at Glenelg (I think it was last year), there was this massive piss up and a couple of my friend's actually had to have
their stomaches pumped and all sorts.
All I'm saying is there is fun, and then there is taking it way too far.
But I agree with you, every day is Australia Day and if you're flying the flag every day, then by all means fly it. I have no problem with people
hanging flags off their cars, it's just some of the idiots that do it that take it way too far. They are, however, the minority in Australia, but
here in Adelaide, they're a bigger number...
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Yep, it's just that younger generation of bogans trying be all patriotic with their "Australia, f**k off we're full" attitude that are ruining it.
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| Quote: | Originally
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posted by bajachris88
Australia day.... celebrating being a part of one of the best nations in the world
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Says it all really. When half of Sydney and some other city's community get pissed off at flying the Australian flag and we should not be
celebrating it, it makes me more patriotic!
If you don't like our country or it's people when their country is such a shithole, why don't you LEAVE!
It annoy's me that people would even consider questioning AUSTRALIA DAY!
Australia,love it or piss off
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I must be the biggest racist out
Everything else aside I had a great day.
Went out to lunch with my family and the girl. Did a little bit of cruising around in the dub, and went to a mates place and watched some movies.
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| Quote: | Says it all
really. When half of Sydney and some other city's community get pissed off at flying the Australian flag and we should not be celebrating it, it
makes me more patriotic!
If you don't like our country or it's people when their country is such a shithole, why don't you LEAVE!
It annoy's me that people would even consider questioning AUSTRALIA DAY!
Australia,love it or piss off
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You don't think that may have been made up by the media scum? Just like the christmas decorations crap.
I read it on samba, so it must be correct.
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Australia day.... celebrating being a part of one of the best nations in the world
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Crap, we are the best nation by a long way!!!!
My family originated as economic refugees (boat people) running from the oppression of a ruthless immoral nation, as are some of the current boat
people we all seem to love to bag, it just so happened that it was 1835 from Ireland and the oppressors were the English. We are a nation made up of
all the people on earth, why is the union jack in the corner of our flag anyway? (rhetorical question) It seems to generate an exclusive attitude why
not replace it with the aboriginal flag as an acknowledgement of our true heritage and may stimulate a bit of self esteem in that community which is
desperately needed. If people think being here for a couple of generations gives them the right to tell others were to go I know were I want to send
them.
Sorry, ignorant, selfish, racist, redneck fools piss me off
I have blond hair blue eyes and white skin and have been told to go back to were I came from by indigenous people who are racist just like the rest of
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Bloody hell Smiley, that flag's even bigger than mine, so size does count !
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
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I Agree with Matt Ryan,
Australia day should have a different date and a different meaning behind it. Many people "discovered" Australia before Captain Cook and his Mob did
so it should'nt be based on the date of federation or settlement of the british. That brings up too much from the past and brings up alot of hurt and
sad times for the Indigenous Australians that ancestors were treated very wrong but also for the decendants of the convicts braught on the first
fleets that was treated very wrong.
I Think Australia day needs to be a celebration for the country we live in and all our country is today. and all the people that live in it, no matter
what there heritage or backround of the Australian. Our Whole country has come such a long way from were it was, and we need to celebrate that we have
came along way and not keep focusing on how or who did it cause many people... many many people and races of people made this country not just Cook
and he's mob.
From Dylan
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| Quote: | Says it all really.
When half of Sydney and some other city's community get pissed off at flying the Australian flag and we should not be celebrating it, it makes me
more patriotic!
If you don't like our country or it's people when their country is such a shithole, why don't you LEAVE!
It annoy's me that people would even consider questioning AUSTRALIA DAY!
Australia,love it or piss off
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Jingoism - Colloquially, it refers to excessive bias in judging one's own country as superior to others – an extreme type of nationalism.
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Yesterday was a great day for me, friends and fanily around a few red drinks, a few amber sangers and lots of laughs and good food on the barbie, oh,
and telling lots of lies that we all accepted as gospell truth. The one thing I noticed was the almost total acceptance of the last bit of the
Australia Day adds, "the best bit is we can get up and do it all tomorrow". Just because there are a few (yes, by far the minority) "bogans" out
there carrying on like idiots dosn't mean we cant be proud of this great land and celebrate our good fortune to be living here.
While on a recent drive in the wench a fella comented on my Australian flag I was flying off the back, telling me that he used to have two hanging off
his caravan but his son told him to take them off as it wasn't Australia Day, so off they came, I told him to give his son the nessage that it's
Australia Day every day. Fly the flag.
Here endeth the lesson.
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I have a flag flying at Home on a pole every day, and there are a couple of others that have them flying near My vicinity..
I was going to fly one of My BIG flags on My Car but forgot all about it..
didn;t see too many locals with window flags on their cars..
or car mirror socks.. they will all be on special tomorrow.. lol
Its just about Australia FLAG day.... lol..
or hats-caps-towels-shorts-t shirts- thongs-socks- etc..
none of which are made here..
I would like to see the national anthem played at more venues IMHO
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I would like to see the national anthem played at more venues IMHO
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Especially this version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiEycVMKoJo
The Australia day date is the date that our community first settled on Australian soil and started moving towards the way of live we now know, which
includes taking the existing aboriginal inhabitants with us (not that they had much say in it, unfortunately).
Not trying to be picky Dylan, but it is not the date that Captain Cook discovered Australia, but the date that Govenor Arther Phillip landed with the
first fleet.
From your ole' mate Jeff
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Agreed Jon,
And the term "Racist" is blown way out of propotion these days everyone is so politically correct that they cant even say the blacks and the whites
or the lebonese and the Aboriginies in a tottaly non racist way but people jump to the gun of "your a racist" I Welcome you into My Country and i
wish you the best to your life here. Immigrants like you are ones i love to come to this country. The Ones i dont like are ones that come here then
complain im a racist to fly my own flag in my own country, now thats twisted!
From Dylan
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Old Hutcho
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Dylan.
You welcome me to your country? I need to know how many generations you have to have here before you become "indigenous". I say to everybody that
"I am indigenous. I was born here. So was my father, my grandfathers and a couple of generations before that". Lets not get divisive and
apartheid now.
regards
Old Hutcho
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