Brian Ross wrote on Jan 19
th, 2018 at 4:47pm:
Mr Hammer wrote on Jan 19
th, 2018 at 4:41pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Jan 19
th, 2018 at 4:36pm:
We did not start celebrating 26 January as "Australia Day" as a national holiday until 1935.
1994 was when we started to consistently celebrate on the day.
Personally, I have no problems with people wanting to celebrate Invasion Day - as long as we also get a day to celebrate Resistance Day. A day where we recognise Indigenous peoples' resistance to white colonial rule. Sure, it wasn't successful but it did happen.
Why would white Australian's embrace changing the date when terms like "invasion day" keep getting tossed about? It makes white people look like a virus or something. Very derogatory indeed.
Hammer, it is an accurate interpretation of what occurred.
Whites invaded Australia and took it from it's original owners.
and you do not class yourself as a BIGOT..
seriously you need to look it up...
no one took anything least of all land....
the same land is still there when Cook stepped off the Endeavor ... we now have a system when we can lease the land and live on it or grow something on it for many years.... if we leave the country we leave the land behind....I could of course dismantle the house and take it with me...
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but the land.. will never go anywhere....
I am sure through most of history not just Australian if we could all go back and do it again a lot of things would be done differently...
isnt that what we have hindesite for...
some of us find it better to forgive if they ever wish to move forward and make life better for future generations...
then again we have those who wish to to permanently disable a certain group of people by cementing them in the past... forgetting to mention nothing will ever change the past....no amount of bitching and whining and complaining or money or sorry speeches or date changing... ..
nothing will ever change the day of the landing...
you want to keep our aboriginal chums disabled dont you.. brain?....its a kind of control thing I guess