Personally I have very strong feelings & emotions towards the date January 26th. My family arrived here on the First Fleet & were instrumental in running the colony in its infancy. I would love to be more specific however I don't need to doxx myself. Lets just say there are Sydney streets named for & portraits of my ancestor to be found in the State Library on Macquarie St.
I love this country & what we have achieved in a little over 200 years & Australian history runs in my blood. I have had to back out of more than one potential bang in the past when I realised my target was a distant cousin.
This whole "change the date" bullshit does my fucking napper in.
These ungrateful, ignorant Year Zero types who run around calling it "Invasion Day" make my blood boil (I'm looking at you Tripe J faggots). Colonisation Day just doesn't have the same ring to it eh? Another example of deliberate manipulation by word association from the regressive left, designed to divide the country & incite racial tension. Leftist Aussies would love to have their own version of whatever is trendy in the US, & to them racial disharmony would be an homage to the horrible situation that has been stirred up, based on half truths & outright lies, over there.
This whole idea of re-writing history in order to consider yourself a patriot & make other feel included is as daft as Rudd's apology. So you change the date to another random day? Well all you've done is alienate all the people who actually do celebrate Australia Day for the right reasons. All the others would be doing exactly what they do anyway on any other given public holiday.
On the other hand, I remember a time when we had a National Identity and it was a wonderful place to be. For many years now I have found it difficult to identify exactly what that is or means anymore. I certainly don't feel kinship with the general populace these days.
I love this country & what we have achieved in a little over 200 years & Australian history runs in my blood. I have had to back out of more than one potential bang in the past when I realised my target was a distant cousin.
This whole "change the date" bullshit does my fucking napper in.
These ungrateful, ignorant Year Zero types who run around calling it "Invasion Day" make my blood boil (I'm looking at you Tripe J faggots). Colonisation Day just doesn't have the same ring to it eh? Another example of deliberate manipulation by word association from the regressive left, designed to divide the country & incite racial tension. Leftist Aussies would love to have their own version of whatever is trendy in the US, & to them racial disharmony would be an homage to the horrible situation that has been stirred up, based on half truths & outright lies, over there.
This whole idea of re-writing history in order to consider yourself a patriot & make other feel included is as daft as Rudd's apology. So you change the date to another random day? Well all you've done is alienate all the people who actually do celebrate Australia Day for the right reasons. All the others would be doing exactly what they do anyway on any other given public holiday.
On the other hand, I remember a time when we had a National Identity and it was a wonderful place to be. For many years now I have found it difficult to identify exactly what that is or means anymore. I certainly don't feel kinship with the general populace these days.