AUSTRALIA DAY won’t be the same in one Australian city next year, with the usual celebrations cancelled.

The council at Fremantle, about 30 minutes from Perth, decided on Wednesday night to cancel its annual fireworks display next year and beyond out of respect to indigenous people.

“There has been a growing movement that January 26 is increasingly becoming a day that is ‘not for all Australians’. For many Aboriginal Australians it is indeed a day of sadness and dispossession,” Fremantle mayor Brad Pettitt said.

“This does not just refer to indigenous involvement but the involvement of many other Australians who feel increasingly uncomfortable with the date and what it represents.

“The city has received significant feedback supporting the idea of reimagining our Australia Day celebrations from both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.”

Mr Pettitt said he was proud of the council move and hopes it will make Australia Day become more inclusive and respectful.

Australia Day marks the anniversary of when the First Fleet and its commander Captain Arthur Phillip arrived in Australia from Britain, raising the flag of Great Britain over Sydney Cove.
It’s known as Invasion Day to many indigenous Australians. It’s even sometimes referred to as Survival Day.

The City of Fremantle has been highly criticised for its decision, with some saying political correctness has gone too far.

Fremantle residents are also unhappy with the decision because it’s breaking family traditions.
“So disappointed. This has been a tradition for us with the same group of families every year. Such a wonderful inclusive family event that made my heart swell with pride at being an Australian living in Fremantle,” Rebecca James said.

Another dubbed the decision as “absolutely disgraceful”.

“Who said Australia Day wasn’t inclusive?” one man said.

Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettitt and indigenous activist Corina Abraham welcome the decision to have a more inclusive Australia Day celebration.

There have been speculation the council made the decision to save money. Labor indigenous affairs spokesman Ben Wyatt, told The Australian he too was sceptical.

“Cancelling popular events in the name of reconciliation does not advance the cause. If it’s because of cost, then call it cost,” he said.

“The relationship between Aboriginal people and Australia Day is profound. Cancelling fireworks is a facile response and likely to cause more division.”

A large number of people who live in Fremantle however fully back the council’s decision and said it was time for Australia to stop “celebrating genocide”.

The Australian reports Whadjuk Noongar custodian Corina Abraham said Australia Day was “a day that signifies death and anger, when our lands were stolen”.

“I believe we need another day that brings us together in unity, where we all feel proud,” she said.
“What day that is could be an issue for the Prime Minister.”

"There have been speculation the council made the decision to save money. Labor indigenous affairs spokesman Ben Wyatt, told The Australian he too was sceptical.

“Cancelling popular events in the name of reconciliation does not advance the cause. If it’s because of cost, then call it cost,” he said.

“The relationship between Aboriginal people and Australia Day is profound. Cancelling fireworks is a facile response and likely to cause more division.”

"In the name of reconciliation" is the biggest load of garbage
I have ever heard...

..remember the nativity scene being removed in Sydney shopping malls so as not to offend muslims...

It happened...

Just another example of our kiss arse society.
If Australia Day fireworks are insensitive to them, why not just cancel Australia Day altogether..dont pussy foot around...maybe even give Mundine or Dodson the Prime
Ministership while we're at it....but give them a flagon
or two as well......

Unforgiven wrote on Aug 29^th, 2016 at 3:15pm:


It's hell on the neighbours' pets.

Kiss everyone arse...the new australian culture...bend over...

"THE CRUELTY OF HOME COMFORTS

FOR many Aboriginal people, Australia Day is a day of sadness, a day which marks when their dispossession began.”

Thus wrote the leftie Mayor of Fremantle last week, justifying his council’s decision to cancel Australia Day fireworks out of “sensitivity” to Aborigines.

Corina Abraham, an activist for the Nyoongar Elders, agreed, pointing out our national holiday “signifies death and anger, when our lands were stolen”.

Cancelling the fireworks is an excellent idea, and will certainly drive home the point.

But why stop there?

There are so many other things that January 26th signifies for Aboriginal people. So I assume the mayor, his nine councillors and the Nyoongar Elders will happily get rid of them too.

Quote:

How about, for starters, sanitation, medicine, a rich and varied diet, fresh water on tap, increased life expectancy, toilet paper, Coco Pops, Netflix, air travel, the combustible engine, reverse-cycle airconditioning, bike paths, fishing lines, halogen lamps, cigarettes, chardonnay, package cruises to Bali, the Olympics, dental floss, mobile phones, laundromats, Sportsgirl, Pokemon Go!, taking the kids to the cricket, opening presents on Christmas morning, Happy Meals … I could go on.

There are, after all, so many dreadful things settlement brought to indigenous Australians.

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That's for sure ..... the endless whining by mostly white aboriginals. I suppose these city bred Nyoongars would love to go back to eking out an existence without clothing shelter ... living on bush tucker & drinking from waterholes.

D1ckheads.

Their contribution to music was and is a hollow stick that makes a single monotonous droning noise.

Gnads wrote on Aug 29^th, 2016 at 8:26pm:


I keep hearing about 'Aboriginal culture' - but I've never worked out what they mean by that.

Every people on earth at one time in the pre-historic past had an 'aboriginal culture', but then things improved and advanced beyond the Stone Age.

Indigenous Australians are driving cars and living in homes with sophisticated technology and electronics, but still carry-on about their wonderful 'aboriginal culture'.

Crazy stuff.

It's time they admitted they got caught with their pants down when Europeans arrived here as people thousands of years in advance of them.

Just stop the bullshit is all some of us ask of them.   

You can see why people just HATE their local councils. They rob you with hugely inflated rises just to pick a few bins up and fill a few holes in the road. Then...because they are awash with rate payers' money they go chasing causes.

As Mrs Brown would say, "smack off and go pick up the garbage!"

When my lawyer, doctor, accountant or dentist is an indigenous person, Ill start giving them some respect...Go to Doomadgee in northern Qld and you see all the budding
lawyers, doctors, accountants, dentists etc behaving in the
usual indigenous manner....
I know, sarcasm will get me no-where...

thehermit wrote on Aug 30^th, 2016 at 3:46pm:


So, you only respect people with a high IQ?

Definitely..my post was suggesting how unintelligent the indigenous people are..to the extent that they have the lowest IQ on the planet...

thehermit wrote on Aug 30^th, 2016 at 3:46pm:



What a load of crap.

How about addressing the question, like an adult.

Why do you only respect people with high IQs?

IQs can drop with age, you know

And, people suffering with dementia would have a relatively low IQ.

Why don't you respect the elderly, and people with mental disorders?

Do you push people out of wheelchairs too?

How bout you just pull your head in boofhead...