Play Nice Australia Day 2025

[BunjiMC]

I’ve already explained earlier in a reply to bunjimac

Because it just feels right to you and it's all you know? You don't care how many people are hurting on that day and how much suffering has been experienced because it feels right to you and it's been that way for.......wait for it.....31 years....

That's a scary way to live and everyone if lived that way the world would be a sad and scary place......but I'll take a punt and say that those sad and scary things probably wouldn't affect you anyway so why would you care..?

 

[FR0GGY]

Because it just feels right to you and it's all you know? You don't care how many people are hurting on that day and how much suffering has been experienced because it feels right to you and it's been that way for.......wait for it.....31 years....

That's a scary way to live and everyone if lived that way the world would be a sad and scary place......but I'll take a punt and say that those sad and scary things probably wouldn't affect you anyway so why would you care..?

Where did you get 31 years from?

 

[BunjiMC]

Where did you get 31 years from?

 

[FR0GGY]

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Pretty sure that’s just a public holiday?

Following Federation in 1901, moves for a national holiday gained pace (prompted by lobbying by the Australian Natives' Association which celebrated ANA Day), with the name Australia Day and the date of 26 January finally selected in 1935, with a public holiday at or around that date in all states in 1940.

Australia Day has been around far longer than 31 years

 

[BunjiMC]

Pretty sure that’s just a public holiday?

Following Federation in 1901, moves for a national holiday gained pace (prompted by lobbying by the Australian Natives' Association which celebrated ANA Day), with the name Australia Day and the date of 26 January finally selected in 1935, with a public holiday at or around that date in all states in 1940.

Australia Day has been around far longer than 31 years

Just not always celebrated on the 26th of January. Which is all that is being asked for....

 

[FR0GGY]

Just not always celebrated on the 26th of January. Which is all that is being asked for....

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No people don’t celebrate Australia Day on the public holiday they do it on Australia Day

 

[BunjiMC]

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No people don’t celebrate Australia Day on the public holiday they do it on Australia Day

For the last 31 years. Sure.

 

[FR0GGY]

For the last 31 years. Sure.

Not sure where you get that impression from?

 

[Eagleboy2011]

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No people don’t celebrate Australia Day on the public holiday they do it on Australia Day

I cannot remember when Australia day was not celebrated on the 26th. Tomorrow is the holiday, but the celebrations have been going on all day today.

Our council was letting off fireworks a couple of hours ago. I'm sure they are not doing it again tommorrow.

 

[BunjiMC]

Not sure where you get that impression from?

Prior to 1994 people didn't get a public holiday for the 26th unless it was a Monday or Friday. If it fell on a Thursday, people went to work but they probably did celebrate it on the 27th..... the Friday when they had the public holiday. And I'm guessing they still had a good time.

 

[CrowToon]

Dobbing people in to their employer for having an opinion is despicable act. Don't pretend it's anything else.

First Nations people can have a view of the date, others can too. Hurt feelings should never be a sackable offence.

I hate few things more than this insipid idea that being employed by a company means you can't be yourself in your own time.

If he was giving the double bird whilst doing a goal sign when a First Nations player kicked a goal then sure, he is making his employer look bad.

But anyone who cannot separate a single human being in their time off and a company needs residency in an asylum.

When I am Lord of Australia along with making George my court jester, I will be repealing any type of right employers have to dismissing employees based on things they do and say outside of work.

For the record I'm in favour of changing the date, its not like it hasnt changed several times before. But a dog act is a dog act.

 

[Eagleboy2011]

A live Newspoll atm

We will never find a perfect day.
If anyone tries to change it, it will probably disappear altogether.

The extreme left will make sure of that. They will never settle on a date. They hate Australia.

 

[CrowToon]

A live Newspoll atm

We will never find a perfect day.
If anyone tries to change it, it will probably disappear altogether.

The extreme left will make sure of that. They hate Australia.

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5% of people wanting to move it to an existing public holiday - small business owners surely. Flat out UnAustralian otherwise.

 

[Eagleboy2011]

5% of people wanting to move it to an existing public holiday - small business owners surely. Flat out UnAustralian otherwise.

How silly to have Jan 1. Most people are still getting over New Year hangovers to have another celebration.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Federation Day WOULD be an ideal time to have it but, unfortunately, they were stupid enough to unite the colonies and put the constitution into effect on New Year's Day*.

*Tongue in-cheek btw.

 

[cm_perfect]

Well we had a cracking Australia Day!


BBQ
Swim (pool)



Rinse/repeat

Don’t care what day it is as long as it’s in summer.

We should celebrate what we have!!

 

[relapse]

A live Newspoll atm

We will never find a perfect day.
If anyone tries to change it, it will probably disappear altogether.

The extreme left will make sure of that. They will never settle on a date. They hate Australia.

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Nonsense

Claiming that those who want the date changed "hate Australia" is just as ridiculous as saying that people who want Australia Day to stay on the 26th are racist.

You'll find a lot of people sit in the camp of being open minded to the prospect of a change of date if it were ever proposed, but also happy to celebrate on the 26th of January if it remains the date.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

It's a shame that this stupid white Australia protests occur on Australia Day. Why do so many of them need to cover themselves up... Many came from interstate for this. Displaying Nazi symbol given world events is inflammatory. Seriously get a life.

Police arrest 16 members of neo-Nazi group on Australia Day

www.9news.com.au

 

[Coopers]

It's a shame that this stupid white Australia protests occur on Australia Day. Why do so many of them need to cover themselves up... Many came from interstate for this. Displaying Nazi symbol given world events is inflammatory. Seriously get a life.

Police arrest 16 members of neo-Nazi group on Australia Day

www.9news.com.au

Oh shit, that's in Adelaide.

Who hasn't posted since yesterday AM?

 

[Punchy Bassett]

It's a shame that this stupid white Australia protests occur on Australia Day. Why do so many of them need to cover themselves up... Many came from interstate for this. Displaying Nazi symbol given world events is inflammatory. Seriously get a life.

Police arrest 16 members of neo-Nazi group on Australia Day

www.9news.com.au

Can't think of any reason why they are currently out and about thinking they can get away with flying Nazi flags......

 

[kirky]

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No people don’t celebrate Australia Day on the public holiday they do it on Australia Day

The point is prior to 1994, we didn’t care about Australia Day falling on the 26th January because if it fell on a Tuesday-Thursday it was a just normal work day. If it fell on these days it was just another day like say Remembrance Day.

Prior to 1994, the Australia Day holiday fell on the Monday after Australia Day 26th.

Not sure why people don’t understand this.

 

[FR0GGY]

The point is prior to 1994, we didn’t care about Australia Day falling on the 26th January because if it fell on a Tuesday-Thursday it was a just normal work day. If it fell on these days it was just another day like say Remembrance Day.

Prior to 1994, the Australia Day holiday fell on the Monday after Australia Day 26th.

Not sure why people don’t understand this.

That’s like saying no one cared that Australia Day was on the 26th until a few years ago.

A public holiday isn’t the reason Australia Day is celebrated.

 

[Mutineer]

Not all indigenous folk think the same. Some are just proud to be Aussies.

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[Mutineer]

From Jacinta Price
Given we are continually being denigrated as a nation and bombarded by accusations of racism and bigotry, I felt it wasn’t only necessary to defend my home and the country I love but to also provide the overwhelming evidence that demonstrates these accusations are lies. If we can’t have pride in our own nation how are we expected to evolve successfully? If we keep telling a particular demographic they are victims of others of a certain skin colour we are effectively removing that demographic’s agency and that, to me, is completely un-Australian.
Here is a list of our nation’s achievements toward Aboriginal Australia and dare I say there’s very likely a whole lot that I have missed but we have to start somewhere right?
1856 – In South Australia all Men including Aboriginal Men were given the right to vote.
1896 – In South Australia all Women including Aboriginal Women were given the right to vote, 32 years before Women in England were given that right.
1948 – It is not well understood but no one in Australia was an Australian Citizen up until this year. We were regarded as British Subjects until the Citizenship Act was passed. Citizenship Rights were being extended to Aboriginal Australians gradually throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s by Coalition Governments’.
1962 – Aboriginal Australians were granted the Right to Vote by a Coalition Government.
1964 – Aboriginal Australians were virtually granted full Citizenship Rights under a Coalition Government when the Aboriginal Ordinance was repealed.
1967 – The Referendum went through with overwhelming support of well over 90% of Australians voting to allow Aboriginal Australians to be included in the Census and for Aboriginal Affairs to become a Commonwealth responsibility. Another successful Coalition Government initiative.
1968 - The Equal Pay decision was applied by a Coalition Government.
1970 - A state Coalition Government in Victoria handed back the Lake Tyers reserve to the Aboriginal community.
1971 - Senator Neville Bonner, a Liberal, became our first Aboriginal Parliamentarian. Since then there have been 43 Aboriginal MP’s throughout state and federal Parliaments in Australia. To add to this 8 MP’s have recorded Aboriginal Ancestry but have not been identified as Aboriginal. The Northern Territory gave us the first and only Government, at any level, led by an Indigenous Australian. This is not widely known or celebrated because Chief Minister Adam Giles was with the Country Liberal Party.
1976 – The NT Land Rights Act was passed by a Coalition Government. Under this Act around 45% of the land and 80% of the coastline of the NT has been handed back to traditional owners, I’m one of them.
1992 – The High Court overturned the Principal of Terra Nullius with the Mabo Decision.
1993 – A Labor Government passed the Native Title Act.
In Australia today we have experienced historically significant acts of symbolism that include the 1991 Reconciliation Walk Across Sydney Harbour Bridge. For six hours 250,000 Australians of all backgrounds walked together to demonstrate the fact we are not racist but are overwhelmingly in support of Aboriginal Australia. We have spent a week every year since commemorating this event and what it means.
A Labor Prime Minister said ‘Sorry’ on May 26th 1998 in recognition of the impact of the policies of forcible removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. These days and others are commemorated every year to recognise historical injustices and to demonstrate that everyday Australians DO care for the plight of Indigenous Australians.
We spend days and weeks each year recognising Aboriginal Australia in the following ways:
National Apology Day
National Sorry Day
National Close the Gap Day
Anniversary of the Referendum
Reconciliation week
Mabo Day
Coming of the Light
NAIDOC Week
National Aboriginal and Islander Childrens’ Day
International Day of the worlds Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Literacy Day
Anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights of Indigenous People
Throughout Australia ‘Welcome to Country’ or ‘Recognition of Country’ is applied as standard ritual practice before events, meetings and social gatherings by governments, corporates, institutions, primary schools, kindergartens, high schools, universities, work places, music festivals, gallery openings, conferences, and so on and so forth.
Aboriginal Australia is a part of the daily life of us all in some way shape or form and yet we are still facing accusations of racism in our nation. We have been hoodwinked into believing that somehow reconciliation means appeasing the aggrieved, those who refuse to forgive, and we are held to ransom every time the goal posts are shifted.
The good will and support of the Australian people is always on display and it has only gathered momentum along the way.
It’s time now to recognise the efforts of thousands of Australians throughout our history who have done what was in their power to support Aboriginal Australia including those who are not Aboriginal but who call us family. It’s time to recognise that we cannot possibly be a racist country if over 87% of people who identify as Aboriginal in non-remote areas of Australia are in fact married to non-Aboriginal Australians.
We must also remember that our nation is not only simply black and white. We are rich with the contribution of Australians of many backgrounds and this is one of our greatest strengths as a nation. What of the 30% of Australians who were born overseas, from every country on earth. Are they all racist too?
It’s time to stop feeding into a narrative that promotes racial divide, a narrative that claims to try to stamp out racism but applies racism in doing so and encourages a racist over reaction. Yes, it is time for some truth telling.
We should be celebrating what we have achieved together before the good will of the nation runs out.

 

[kirky]

That’s like saying no one cared that Australia Day was on the 26th until a few years ago.

A public holiday isn’t the reason Australia Day is celebrated.

When Australia Day feel on a week day (Tuesday-Thursday) there wasn’t a great deal of celebration - all people were looking forward to was public holiday Monday.

Perhaps you ain’t old enough whilst some of us have been around for 60 odd years.