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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:32 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 4:35 pm
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Tuesday 27th January 2009
Sue Neales wrote "Move the date call" article which is displayed on the front page of Tuesday's edition of the Tasmanian paper "The Mercury"
"...Celebrating Australia Day on January 26 was as offensive as Aborigines celebrating Anzac Day for 8000 white Australian deathes, Tasmanian Aborigines said yesterday.......Australian of the Year, indigenous leader and human rights academic Mick Dodson called for Australia Day to be moved when accepting his national award from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Sunday. But Rudd yesterday again ruled out changing the date of Australia Day, looking directly at Professor Dodson as he spoke. "To our indigenous leaders, and those who call for a change to our national day, let me say a simple, respectful, but straightforward no," Mr Rudd said....."
There is a lot more to that article - since it goes for 3 pages.
And my opinion is....
January 26 is known as Foundation Day when Captain Cook planted a British flag into the ground at Sydney Cove in 1788.
In the next 200-odd years was a lot of blood shed and denial of accountability.
And then there was an official "Sorry" from our government for all of that bloodshed, denial and wrong-doings.
A lot of our black/white history has just been wrong and bloody and January 26 is as official a day as to start this history from.
Go call it Invasion Day - I won't correct you. Just DON"T change Australia Day from this date!
I believe in the government statement of "Sorry" and the reconciliation that it was meant to encourage. I believe that Australia Day, celebrated on 26th January as had a really wrong start, but it will be put on a corrected course for the future!
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 5:03 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 1:19 am
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What date was suggested for an alternative?
To me, Australia day, like Christmas, is no longer really a celebration of what happened on that day all those years ago.
Christmas isn't about Jesus, it's about family and friends getting together and celebrating eating yourself stupid. That's why, as a Jew, I don't have a problem with people wishing me a merry christmas. It's not about the J-dog. I don't celebrate Australia day because of the 'discovery' of Australia, I celebrate the fact that we get a day off so that we can be with our friends, have a pool party, a beer, a bbq, and listen to the tripple J hottest 100.
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 6:22 pm
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