All the silly hoo har is brewing again prior to Australia day again. Heard on the news this morning a second major supermarket is not selling aussie merchandise prior to the 26th because of “waning public interest”.
Then in the same day we hear a well known 2 dollar shop ( that sells everything made in China town because australia can’t make anything) and the other supermarket will be selling aussie day merchandise. Personally speaking, the day has just been turned into a silly circus over the past 20 or so years. Most localities still host the breakfast in the morning which is a good idea.
Woolworths won’t celebrate Australia Day but they’ll happily celebrate Diwali Day.
It’s a day that’s always been hijacked by bogans in modern times. Flags on car windows, hats, thongs, fake tattoos, real southern cross tattoos. Loud music, a barbecue and lots of booze. I think it might mean more for the right reasons for those who genuinely appreciate the opportunity to come to Australia for a new life who have embraced the Australian way of life and want to become an Australian citizen.
Either way the date has been turned into a clusterfuck by the woke/cancel culture/ serial whingers who are never satisfied. You might as well rename it Australia Division Day.
So it wasn’t that long ago where folk gathered around the Swan river, 96Fm simulcast music with fireworks, so what happened. So now its invasion day, Give me strength.
It should be renamed NSW day as it’s really all about the first European landing on their shores. Not much to do with the rest of Australia. Time for the federal Government to come up with a day and a date and title thats fully inclusive for all Australians, all states and territories, don’t copout and dump dealing with it onto local councils and their rate payers. Maybe in between Albo’s overseas jaunts he might be able to give it some thought, certainly plenty of time on those long first class flights.
In my humble opinion as a naturalised West Australian, it should be January 1st, Federation Day. So we lose a public holiday, big deal. I am sure Albo could think up a reason to bring in a new one.
[quote=“Winger post=233204 userid=846”]So it wasn’t that long ago where folk gathered around the Swan river, 96Fm simulcast music with fireworks, so what happened. So now its invasion day, Give me strength.
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Exactly Winger. I looked forward to going to the Swan River or Burswood or to some friend’s houses who had a reasonable view of the fireworks from their back verandahs. A BBQ, beers and some tunes and when it came time for the fireworks, you’d turn the radio to whichever station was broadcasting them.
On a slightly different note, I find it strange how around Christmas and New Year it’s about celebrating with your friends and family the year that was and hoping for a prosperous year to come. The mood amongst majority of people is usually a friendly and happy one. Then on the 1st or 2nd of January we have the Australia Day debate for 3-4 weeks.
So now we have hairy arsed gays from both sides of the biological fence, indigenous activists, left wing fruit cakes, militant unionists, the ABC all putting their two bobs worth regarding Australia day, guess what, that sulk Albanese is probably sitting at his desk under a banker’s light adding up his rent money from his rentals. He is not a leader, make a decision you goose, either keep the date or make a date, knowing elbow it would be April 1. Anyway, I miss the fireworks in my dad’s back yard, Katerine wheels, penny bombs, sky rockets, roman candles and a bloody big bon fire. shit I can’t remember them all. Cracker night was great.
[quote=“Winger post=233204 userid=846”]So it wasn’t that long ago where folk gathered around the Swan river, 96Fm simulcast music with fireworks, so what happened. So now its invasion day, Give me strength.
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Make it the last Monday in January like it used to be, then it’s about Australia and not a date. Pretty bloody simple
Great suggestion TOO, but that makes way too much sense for our intellectual Pigmy law makers to grasp.
[quote=“Tiger of old post=233229 userid=1372”]Make it the last Monday in January like it used to be, then it’s about Australia and not a date. Pretty bloody simple
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I honestly think this is the best solution.
26 Jan has been Australia Day since the 1940s , but the actual holiday was always celebrated as public holiday on last Monday in January, it was actually that great leftwing hero Paul Keating that moved it to the actual day in 1994, so as to mark the day more fully in the same was Anzac Day always falls on 25 April. Ironic really as the left are the ones now trying to kill it.
Growing up in 60s and 70s and 80s not much happened, it was just the last holiday of the year before everyone went back to school or work after the summer break, ideally located for parents to prepare the kids for school year ahead. Or take the mob down the beach for a day off.
Fired up under Hawk and the 1988 Bicentenary ( an awesome celebration glad I was around to see it) and Perth had the Sky Show to wrap up the summer long weekend in a big way.
Before you knew it we had great picnics, bbqs, thousands gathered proudly with flags, citizen ceremonies and the like for one and all, it was actually a great day.
I am adamant that the day should still me marked as the beginning of modern Australia as it indeed was, that settlement kicked off the nation, which is why all the states agreed that it should be the national day.
But having odd days off in middle of week is pain, it was far better before as a handy summer long weekend, one would think it would deflate the anti Australia day mob if we moved it back to the last Monday in January, but I am pretty sure it is not the day they moan about but the actual principle of celebrating the Nation itself, so the moaning will go on and on, and caving into them is fraught with danger.
[quote=“screemar post=233213 userid=1120”]So now we have hairy arsed gays from both sides of the biological fence, indigenous activists, left wing fruit cakes, militant unionists, the ABC all putting their two bobs worth regarding Australia day, guess what, that sulk Albanese is probably sitting at his desk under a banker’s light adding up his rent money from his rentals. He is not a leader, make a decision you goose, either keep the date or make a date, knowing elbow it would be April 1. Anyway, I miss the fireworks in my dad’s back yard, Katerine wheels, penny bombs, sky rockets, roman candles and a bloody big bon fire. shit I can’t remember them all. Cracker night was great.
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Great comment, yep Guy Fawkes Cracker Night , bloody laugh us catholics used to love it , pretty much no one knew or cared it was actually an anti catholic celebration…
[quote=“Mr AFL post=233199 userid=971”]Woolworths won’t celebrate Australia Day but they’ll happily celebrate Diwali Day.
And now the plonkers are promoting China new lunar year!!! And probably selling all the silly crap that goes with it.!!
Getting behind another country’s big day, whilst ignoring our own.??
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Some idiots in Melbourne have wrecked Captain Cooks statue - sawed his legs off.
Typical feral Victoria.
Cook achieved things they could only dream of and will be a greater man that any of them can ever hope to be.
Sounds to me like some idiots in the St Kilda council were willing to let something like this happen given it’s been vandalised a few times before and previously they had security around it this time of year. Surely there are security cameras covering that area.