The hidden history of Australia Day
Behind all the patriotic ads, barbies, marches and parties, remember our history. This is what some of us are celebrating on Australia Day – and some of us are not celebrating at all.
Those feelings of people who don't want the date changed are not rational. Any argument for not changing the date is so easily refuted in a logical discussion. The people wanting it changed have a simple, bloody good reason to change it. Don't you care about THEIR feelings?
This article is well worth reading
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2008/11/the-cultural-roots-of-aboriginal-violence/
You did not answer my question Barak. Did you march in the Invasion Day march yesterday? Did you and your little troupe put their money where there mouth is?
To all those who said they didn't because they lived too far away. BS. That's no excuse there are buses and trains. Yup they just keep fighting from their computer chairs hahahaha. If you feel as strongly as you lot did you should have gotten there by hook or by bluddy crook.
I see that barak continues to espouse his opinions as though they were FACT. Changing the date would not make ME feel any better. Anyway, Australia day has been and gone, so all of we protagonists can go back to sleep now for another year.
I will second that kfchugo. Changing the date just to please some eternally hate creaters, would piss me off, big time. There is not a single date on the calender that would please the hate mongers.
There's around 350 of them.
As far as I understand Bill Shorten in NOT going to change the date should he get in. Funny, the educated Aboriginals are not the ones shouting for a date change.
This excerpt form the ABC's "Conversation" makes terrific sense and I totally agree with this opinion:
Smokescreen
I respect people’s right to mourn and even to claim that Australia Day celebrations are causing them grief, insult, and suffering. However, I question the motives and sincerity of those claiming to be upset because of injustices committed in the past by what boils down to what one set of my ancestors did to another set of my ancestors.
Why do I not see them upset by the injustices committed by Aboriginal people against other Aboriginal people today? The high rates of violence in the Aboriginal population, particularly against women, are well documented – and widely known – yet there is comparatively little outrage. Why?
Protesting about the day, I believe, is a smokescreen to obscure the real problems that many Aboriginal Australians face today. In addition to the problem of violence there is poor health, community dysfunction, unemployment, child neglect, and poor school attendance.
These problems will not be solved by changing the date of Australia Day or giving it a new name. For those objecting to Australia Day celebrations, I encourage you to consider the aforementioned problems and ask yourself: “How will changing the name or the date help those who are suffering most?”
See you later folks!
That is a really insulting post. The date of Australia Day and Aboriginal disadvantage are quite separate issues. You are wrong to say people can't care about both. I do.
Well, well.....if barak cares about something, the whole nation should sit up and take notice. A very sensible post Ray. The only ones capable of changing the lot of our aborigines are...... our aborigines.
Try logic some time, rather than emotion.
"Changing it would please those people, and wouldn't hurt anyone else".....most intelligent - in a single sentence, barak discounts the feelings of all Australians who dont want the date changed.
Changing the date wont roll back the clock or change what has happened. Do we continue to cling to the past with bitterness and recriminations or look to the future. One option can be manipulated and changed and one cannot.