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January 26th 2025
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Hi gang!!! I started my Australia Day long weekend with a night out with workmates. Excellent night had by all. On Sunday we will have a bbq with the family and enjoy Australia Day and be thankful for the country we are lucky enough to be born in.
Do I care about the date???? Nope. Am I thankful that I live in the country I live in? Absolutely!! Do I think Australia Day date should be changed? If the majority of Australians believe it, then absolutely!!! If the majority of Australians do not, then absolutely not!!!
Do I care about the date???? Nope. Am I thankful that I live in the country I live in? Absolutely!! Do I think Australia Day date should be changed? If the majority of Australians believe it, then absolutely!!! If the majority of Australians do not, then absolutely not!!!
South of the Yarra
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On Invasion Day, I will mourn, reflect and continue to have hope that the next generations will continue to understand. Every year I see more and more people who listen and want to move forward. This thread is a brilliant example of just how many people have empathy and understand that for some this is not a day of celebration, it is a day of pain.
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What is the irony?The irony.
South of the Yarra
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Oh my
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I didn't know how to say it but I'm just thankful for your contributions on this forum and they have really educated me
jimi hendrixs woodstock version goes alright
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It's more about the tune. You need something uplifting. The lyrics can be generic national anthem nonsense about the homeland, uniting against a foreign foe, some event in history.
Brazil is not bad.
And Italy.
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You posted this with glee, to spit in the face of people who have shared their very real pain with you.
Regardless the lengths people like South of the Yarra have gone to educated and explain even the basics to you, you take every opportunity you can to laugh at them.
You're a hateful and vile representation of Australia and Australians.
You celebrate the harm and damage, and rub it in the faces of those who live with it.
And you will never change.
I don't believe I am vile and hateful, but everyone is welcome to their opinion......i believe that your tenancy to label people as racist because there dare to have a differing opinion is hateful.
Nothing wrong with being thankful we were born in Australia, I can't think of another country I would prefer to live in. You?
Gough
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We hit the genetic jackpot no doubt but an accident of birth shouldn't bring about blind patriotism and January 26 is a bit more complex than just asking where else would you rather live because let's face it for most of us it wasn't even a choice in the first place.
Letting other people dictate your thoughts and opinions seems to be universal for right wingers. That and being perennially offended and outraged by stuff.
I'd be appreciative of you input to this thread
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Society/Culture - Why do less intelligent people gravitate to conservative/right wing ideology.
So would I. Here's a meta-analysis that's far more wide ranging. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/55893129.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiZksKNiq38AhWmwjgGHVyFAdQQFnoECC0QAQ&usg=AOvVaw2xHhvNmp4MW8yHxMsywA_c There is a significant body of work on the...
www.bigfooty.com
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- Kidding, right?
Says the poster who has said the planned march will threaten the Australian Open despite having it repeatedly pointed out to them that there have been no problems in the previous eight years of marches.
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I don't think you're stupid because you're racist.
You're racist because you're stupid.
But you're also actively refusing to learn.
The desperation for ignorance, because you're so insecure with who you are in your life.
Your achievements have to come from celebrating other people's achievements.
Your feeling of success coming from feeling genetically superior to other races.
Point to a single time in my entire posting history on this forum, where I have ever called someone racist just because they have a differing opinion.
I call you racist, because you genuinely believe that Aboriginal people have disparate outcomes in Australia, because of their race.
You're not in here, posting "HI GANG", because you just genuinely want to share positive experiences.
It's like jumping into an opposing teams board to talk about going for a jog, while they're discussing one of their players tearing a hamstring.
You're doing it in spite.
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- Kidding, right?
I guess Californias, Oregonians, Washingtonians, Texans, Coloradans, Utahans, Arizonians, Louisianans, New Mexicans and Hawaiians might say the same about 4th July (and probably should!)
Dogs_R_Us
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Except the temperature this year is raised to boiling. Multiple “causes” will be represented. When will they wake up to the fact that disrupting the city achieves nothing?
It’s performative mischief-making for the vast majority of the participants, they are entertaining themselves for a free day out.
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Then I must really hate all national anthems coz I’m a huge Hendrix fan and I’ve always hated that one!
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Were a bloody monarchy, if we truly are Australian and our own identity become a republic and be done with it. These conservative clowns want people to disregard any of that because " Straya Day mate". Most countries would think it's strange were celebrating being owned by the Brits like it's a badge of honour if they delved into the history of it all.herald $cum banging on about a 'new poll' saying true blue aussies have a had a gut full of australia day bashing
seriously, who writes this cr@p ..... or have newscorp simply dialled up the internal AI bot* to a patriotic 11?
* rita panahi
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What do you two suggest should be done, to have a positive impact?
Polls indicate the tide was turning (and has for people aged under 45 - a cohort who doesn't seem to be becoming more conservative as they age in the numbers previous generations have), but I think probably similar to the Voice Referendum the reversion towards the status quo has to do with other issues becoming more prominent in people's minds (a view of "I'm struggling to make ends meet and you're asking me about when a public holiday should be?"). It's difficult to prosecute arguments for social change that are perceived as issues for minorities when not addressing people's material conditions.
That said, if there is to be a nationalist public holiday, then it's patently absurd to have it on a date that, at a bare minimum, 30% of the population don't believe is appropriate to celebrate. Dutton can claim legislating for it will make it unitary but that's fundamentally not the case, and it won't be the case until it's changed.
That said, a struggle for the "Change the Date" campaign is that there's no clear proposed date to change it to as an alternative, and so it becomes vague. To some extent that speaks to Australia's lack of maturation as a state - similar to our military holiday being a commemoration of us invading another country, which is pretty unusual in military days of commemoration around the world.
