January 26th 2025

[faible]

250000 years????? Hahaha

It's at least 50,000 years. This means Aboriginal history is one of the oldest continuous histories on the planet. How cool is that right?

As an Australian (note, not British) I'm bloody proud to say I come from a place with this absolutely epic human history right at my doorstep.

Meanwhile, the British rocked up less than 250 years ago. Why would I care about celebrating relatively recent British history at the expense of this insanely cool Australian history that's actually from where I live?

 

[Skeppersap]

Mocking Aboriginal history now

No.....i am just confused whether it is 60000 or 250000? Apparently I should know, so I assume elders are aligned?

 

[faible]

Its funny how you take one misquote from an indigenous leader and then use it to mock the history of an entire race.

Could say the same about those “Aussie patriots” who are love Australia so much they claim they know everything about Australian history, much more than the “dumb lefties”:

Nats MP makes Australia Day blunder

Despite what some Australian politicians say, the date of Australia Day has nothing to do with Captain James Cook.

www.sbs.com.au

Guarantee most of the people demanding the day be sacred and never changed would also tell you it's the day the first fleet arrived.

 

[faible]

No.....i am just confused whether it is 60000 or 250000? Apparently I should know, so I assume elders are aligned?

Google is your friend. Don't just rely on Sky News.

 

[Skeppersap]

Google is your friend. Don't just rely on Sky News.

I wasn't relying on Sky News, I was hoping to learn something from welcome to countries, but I am now ever so confused.

 

[faible]

I wasn't relying on Sky News, I was hoping to learn something from welcome to countries, but I am now ever so confused.

I'd argue you're actually not hoping to learn anything. You're just seeing how far you can push the envelope before you get thread banned for being a flog, then will complain about lefties telling you what to think.

South Of The Yarra is an excellent poster if you want to learn anything at all about Aboriginal people in Australia. He's remarkably tolerant of floggery too.

 

[kalex6251]

I'd argue you're actually not hoping to learn anything. You're just seeing how far you can push the envelope before you get thread banned for being a flog, then will complain about lefties telling you what to think.

South Of The Yarra is an excellent poster if you want to learn anything at all about Aboriginal people in Australia. He's remarkably tolerant of floggery too.

yeah ... playing the daisy cousins alt right edgelord card serves no purpose .... and reflects poorly on the person doing it

 

[Kram]

Ahh it's that time of year again where all the phonies pretend to care about Indigenous Australians for political points scoring.

 

[Demons09]

Ahh it's that time of year again where all the phonies pretend to care about Indigenous Australians for political points scoring.

Greens voters.

 

[faible]

Greens voters.

lOl cArInG aBoUt OtHeRs iS lAmE

 

[liz]

lOl cArInG aBoUt OtHeRs iS lAmE

Definition of woke, isn’t it? We’ll be a far better country (world) when we banish all concept of caring about others and just focus on being self-obsessed, selfish pricks.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Correct .... They don't care much about Australia Day itself, but they are sick to death of being told what they should think by a vocal left minority about a continuous stream of topics, therefore are at the point where they will do the opposite regardless of if they actually don't care that much about the day changing.

This shouldn't come as a surprise.... It is happening world wide with a massive shift to the right in Europe, America and Canada. I would have thought that the US election was fresh in people's minds still

To add to it people see things like this as less important when there's a cost of living and housing crisis going on. At the moment there's just zero appetite out there for progressive change.

If people were better off it would be a walk in the park to change the date. Alas the current issues along with the defeat of the voice referendum has probably snuffed out any sort chance of the date to be changed until the 2030s.

 

[Barrybran]

Correct .... They don't care much about Australia Day itself, but they are sick to death of being told what they should think by a vocal left minority about a continuous stream of topics, therefore are at the point where they will do the opposite regardless of if they actually don't care that much about the day changing.

This is a salient point and one Labor MUST accept if they stand any chance of victory. Indigenous affairs are important but things like Australia Day and the Voice are not fights to be fighting right now.

 

[Barrybran]

I’d agree. 5 years ago even Jeff Kennett was supporting a change to the day to Jan 1st to better reflect the actual beginning of the country, but now he’s fallen back in with the “changing Aus day is wokeness” crowd.

It's really not that difficult though. Make it the Saturday of the last weekend in January where the public holiday Monday would also fall in January. It stays on the same weekend and it falls on Jan 26 once every 6 years at best.

 

[10571z]

Whatever date it’s moved to we will see the same protests and same message that we should all be deeply ashamed of our history and we are all horrible white people.

Personally I couldn’t care what date and I’d much rather it be set on the 1st Monday of February or something giving us a long weekend instead of it randomly falling midweek.

 

[campbell]

Oh goody, our yearly, flog the black fella time.

Seriously guys, enough.

 

[liz]

To add to it people see things like this as less important when there's a cost of living and housing crisis going on. At the moment there's just zero appetite out there for progressive change.

If people were better off it would be a walk in the park to change the date. Alas the current issues along with the defeat of the voice referendum has probably snuffed out any sort chance of the date to be changed until the 2030s.

Of course, one has no impact on the other.

You’re probably (partly) right, regardless. Too many people feel pissed off with their lot in life and so decide no-one else’s wishes should be accommodated, even when those have nothing to do with one’s own plight. It’s like you get relief from being miserable if you know others are suffering more.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

You’re probably (partly) right, regardless. Too many people feel posses off with their lot in life and so decide no-one else’s wishes should be accommodated, even when those have nothing to do with one’s own plight. It’s like you get relief from being miserable if you know others are suffering more.

I think at this point in time it's a case of majority feeling ignored. It then gets to an us vs them attitude, a "my issues are being ignored why should they get anything" attitude.
It's humans being humans in the end.

 

[liz]

It's humans being humans in the end.

Sadly.

 

[South of the Yarra]

No.....i am just confused whether it is 60000 or 250000? Apparently I should know, so I assume elders are aligned?

I didn’t realise Elders worked it out, and secondly why would the elders be aligned when different mobs have been around for different times.

 

[South of the Yarra]

I wasn't relying on Sky News, I was hoping to learn something from welcome to countries, but I am now ever so confused.

To learn something in life you need to be willing to listen.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

To learn something in life you need to be willing to listen.

Two things need to be right before that happens.

1. The environment.
2. The teacher.

 

[adogsfan5]

Oh goody, our yearly, flog the black fella time.

Seriously guys, enough.

Who on here is “flogging the black fella”?

 

[South of the Yarra]

Two things need to be right before that happens.

1. The environment.
2. The teacher.

Whilst I agree, I have learnt plenty of lessons in life from poor environments and poor teachers.

 

[peetoo]

Oh goody, our yearly, flog the black fella time.

Seriously guys, enough.

You must have missed the bit where Dutton kicked off this year before many had finished their Christmas shopping