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Most Dont Care When Australia Day Is Held
Jan 18th, 2018 at 6:18am
 
Most don't care when Australia Day is held, poll finds

Canberra Times
January 18 2018

A majority of voters would not mind if Australia Day was shifted to a different date and most don't know why it's currently held on January 26.   Huh

New polling also reveals that only about a third of Australians – 37 per cent – realise the date is offensive to many Indigenous people because it represents the beginning of the dispossession and violence of British colonisation.

As the political and community debate about the "change the date" movement continues to intensify, the Research Now survey of 1417 people suggests nearly all Australians – 84 per cent – think it is important the country has a national day of celebration.

But 56 per cent say they don't mind when the day occurs, challenging the notion that Australians see January 26 as sacred or untouchable.

The polling also reveals 77 per cent of people believe – incorrectly – that the celebration has always occurred on January 26, the date the First Fleet planted the flag in NSW in 1788.

The date was in fact not adopted by all states until 1935, and has only been celebrated in its current form since 1994.

The polling commissioned by the progressive Australia Institute think tank was conducted among a nationally representative sample in December.

"This polling shows that while Australia Day is important to most Australians, most people are laid back about the date we celebrate on," said deputy director Ebony Bennett.   Smiley

Given 11 multiple choice options, 38 per cent correctly identified the event January 26 marks. And just under half knew it had anything to do with the First Fleet at all.

Others believed it marked the day Captain Cook first sighted Australia, the day the constitution was signed or the day Australia became independent.

Four per cent of people linked the date to events that have not actually happened, including becoming a republic or signing a treaty with Aboriginal Australia.

Asked to nominate what date would be the best to celebrate Australia Day, 70 per cent preferred a date not associated with the First Fleet. And fewer than a quarter (23 per cent) selected the landing in Sydney Cove as the best of a range of options.

Only 37 per cent of people agreed the current date was offensive to Indigenous people, even though many Indigenous leaders have long been calling for change. Nearly half of people – 46 per cent – disagreed the date was problematic.

Asked if Australia Day should not be on a day that is hurtful to Aboriginal people, 49 per cent agreed and 36 per cent disagreed.

The polling came as Indigenous Labor MP Linda Burney said January 26 was "extremely painful" for many first Australians and represented "an attack on sovereignty" - although Labor does not support a change to the date.

Ms Burney wants a renewed focus on constitutional recognition and is advocating for a national public holiday to recognise first Australians.   Smiley

She also criticised the increasing "jingoism" creeping into Australia Day.

"I don't think it makes you any more Australian if you wrap a flag around you and tattoo the Southern Cross on your neck," she told ABC radio.

But Ms Burney – a shadow minister and the first Indigenous woman elected to Federal Parliament's lower house – also criticised the Greens, saying its new campaign to change the date "could end up being more divisive than helpful".

This year's Australia Day debate kicked off in earnest earlier this week after Greens leader Richard Di Natale announced a new campaign for change, signalling it would be one of his party's top priorities in 2018.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the Greens had become "a parody of themselves".

"Australia Day is a day on which the overwhelming majority of Australians – all but a handful – are proud of Australia and its achievements," he told 2GB radio.
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Re: Most Dont Care When Australia Day Is Held
Reply #1 - Jan 18th, 2018 at 6:59am
 
GOSH the Gloom and Doom BlackDay is cluttering up the joint by starting a DUPLICATE thread on this already extensively discussed subject.

What a waste of space this joker is.

And he is just parroting the very Lefty biased Canberra Times ratbag red rag.
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Reply #2 - Jan 18th, 2018 at 8:04am
 
Who did they ask?  Inner Melbourne dwellers names Akropoulos, Singh, Hoo Fling, Ach-med and so forth?

If they don't know what Australia Day stands for, why are they getting a vote?

Tell 'em ter get stuffed....
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“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
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Reply #3 - Jan 18th, 2018 at 8:12am
 
Classically Oz response. AS long as we get a day off work, no one gives a stuff.
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In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

No evidence whatsoever it can be attributed to George Orwell or Eric Arthur Blair (in fact the same guy)
 
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Reply #4 - Jan 18th, 2018 at 8:52am
 
Good.
Let's leave it where it is then.

It's totally appropriate.
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Reply #5 - Jan 18th, 2018 at 8:59am
 
Grendel wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 8:52am:
Good.
Let's leave it where it is then.

It's totally appropriate.



Or move it to any other day thats just as appropriate.
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In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

No evidence whatsoever it can be attributed to George Orwell or Eric Arthur Blair (in fact the same guy)
 
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Reply #6 - Jan 18th, 2018 at 9:25am
 
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 8:04am:
Who did they ask?  Inner Melbourne dwellers names Akropoulos, Singh, Hoo Fling, Ach-med and so forth?

If they don't know what Australia Day stands for, why are they getting a vote?

Tell 'em ter get stuffed....


Yeah I was going to say outside the Balmain basket weavers clubhouse Smiley
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Reply #7 - Jan 18th, 2018 at 9:45am
 
Gordon wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 9:25am:
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 8:04am:
Who did they ask?  Inner Melbourne dwellers names Akropoulos, Singh, Hoo Fling, Ach-med and so forth?

If they don't know what Australia Day stands for, why are they getting a vote?

Tell 'em ter get stuffed....


Yeah I was going to say outside the Balmain basket weavers clubhouse Smiley


Why do the **** s*******  lefties have to **** with with things !   Angry Angry Angry Angry Angry Angry
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Reply #8 - Jan 18th, 2018 at 10:26am
 
We've had the sorry saga, whinging gays, rights for trannies, racism, reffos, de-christianing Christmas, walking on Ayers Rock, stolen generation,   the republic, this rubbish. Next it will be ANZAC Day. The lefties are never satisfied. Keep bending to their fake outrages and it will never end. Soon p o ofters will be demanding to conceive children. It just keeps going on and on and on and on...........
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Reply #9 - Jan 18th, 2018 at 10:27am
 
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 8:12am:
Classically Oz response. AS long as we get a day off work, no one gives a stuff.


Yep  Smiley
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Reply #10 - Jan 18th, 2018 at 10:52am
 
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 8:59am:
Or move it to any other day thats just as appropriate.



Yeah How about January 18 when Captain Phillip invaded Australia at Botany Bay? /sarc
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Reply #11 - Jan 18th, 2018 at 10:57am
 
lee wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 10:52am:
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 8:59am:
Or move it to any other day thats just as appropriate.



Yeah How about January 18 when Captain Phillip invaded Australia at Botany Bay? /sarc




Many alternatives.
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Reply #12 - Jan 18th, 2018 at 10:58am
 
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 10:57am:
lee wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 10:52am:
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 8:59am:
Or move it to any other day thats just as appropriate.



Yeah How about January 18 when Captain Phillip invaded Australia at Botany Bay? /sarc




Many alternatives.

How about celebrating the day the aborigines invented the wheel? Oh...... I forgot.
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Reply #13 - Jan 18th, 2018 at 11:02am
 
Mr Hammer wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 10:58am:
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 10:57am:
lee wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 10:52am:
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 8:59am:
Or move it to any other day thats just as appropriate.



Yeah How about January 18 when Captain Phillip invaded Australia at Botany Bay? /sarc




Many alternatives.

How about celebrating the day the aborigines invented the wheel? Oh...... I forgot.




How about the day the English invented the wheel? Oh.......I forgot.
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In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

No evidence whatsoever it can be attributed to George Orwell or Eric Arthur Blair (in fact the same guy)
 
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Reply #14 - Jan 18th, 2018 at 11:07am
 
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 11:02am:
Mr Hammer wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 10:58am:
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 10:57am:
lee wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 10:52am:
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 18th, 2018 at 8:59am:
Or move it to any other day thats just as appropriate.



Yeah How about January 18 when Captain Phillip invaded Australia at Botany Bay? /sarc




Many alternatives.

How about celebrating the day the aborigines invented the wheel? Oh...... I forgot.




How about the day the English invented the wheel? Oh.......I forgot.

How about the day when the English brought the wheel to Australia?
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