Gotta love the the white neck bearded internet crusaders speaking for everybody from the basements 
Social Science So what are you doing for Australia Day?
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So you’re grouping all those who want to change the date as thinking this way? (By the way I’m happy to change the date, would be good to have a flag/date most of us agreed on)
Fair enough. You were fairly specific about the thoughts of those who wanted to keep Jan 26th, I’m sure there’s a variety of reasons.
One thing is if it goes to a referendum I wonder how they would get us all to agree on the specifics of changing the date/flag, I reckon it would lose because we wouldn’t agree ( a la the referendum)
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China reverse engineer and invent nothing. They will invade and take over by default while the west looks up its own arse.
Australia ourselves need to stop worrying about China, Britain or the US and build our own history. NZ are streets ahead of us in that department.
Change the date flag anthem monarch and get on with things.
We have enough uranium to nuke up to high heaven if worried about invasion
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That's not very culturally sensitive of you. Part of being a socially progressive, tolerant society means you have to accept other cultures that are different to yours, and if you won't accommodate another culture just because yours doesn't include expanding across borders, internment camps etc. well someone on the internet will be most cross with you.
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NZ sold out to Japan in the 90s and has sold out to China now.
Ardern is great at calling out social justice except when it comes to China. They are miles behind us. Not ahead.
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Got up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head...
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In terms of creating their own identity and incorporating Indiginous Culture. Also a substantial part of their economy is build off their natural resources. Also to the extent they are very self sustainable. Although I couldn't comment what's happened in the last 2 years since I was there last.
NZ talks big but delivers little- less foreign aid, smaller refugee intake per capita than Australia. Higher child poverty than Australia.
Ardern is lucky people fall for the show rather than look at the actual deliverables.
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maybe theyre trying to fix their child poverty problem by not wasting money with foreign aid and taking refugees.
i wish we would solve our problems here before wasting billions handing out cash to other countries.
We can walk and chew gum at the same time
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i cant
i tried once and got lost in the bad part of town because i wasnt paying attention to where i was going because i was concentrating on the gum chewing
Any Milfs around?
Given how bad her housing Kiwi build project went, I suspect she is just useless at anything beyond point scoring and putting a good show of caring.
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There was actually, and some bodybuilder type fella, fair rig on him.
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I think it needs to be split in two.
A day for recognition of indigenous people - I'll let them figure out the semantics of it.
A day for Australian's to appreciate being Australian.
Do I personally spend Aust Day celebrating the fact the indigenous people had so much wrong done by them? Of course not, it is usually a time to reflect on what it means to be an Aussie in the present day, if I manage to do that at all...
A day for recognition of indigenous people - I'll let them figure out the semantics of it.
A day for Australian's to appreciate being Australian.
Do I personally spend Aust Day celebrating the fact the indigenous people had so much wrong done by them? Of course not, it is usually a time to reflect on what it means to be an Aussie in the present day, if I manage to do that at all...
We have NAIDOC.
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Just need to add a national public holiday to the week then
Then have some thing else for 'Australian Day'
My misses works at Australia Post and she gets a paid day off for Naidoc week.
I mean there are a lot of days for the recognition of indigenous people - NAIDOC Week, Reconciliation Week, Sorry Day… even if you moved Australia Day the 26th of January would continue to be treated as a Day of Mourning
But realistically I think cleanly splitting the two days is not really possible. Any celebration of ‘Australia the country’ is going to have an indigenous mourning element to it because they are inextricably linked
That’s not to say that the day shouldn’t be moved. There’s nothing particularly sacred about the date of Australia Day - originally it was celebrated in July
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So is there no possibility of Australians celebrating how they feel like it is to be an Australian?
A lot of indigenous people are always going to have mixed emotions about the concept
Saying ‘be sad on this day and happy on this other day’ is kind of a tough sell
Why are people still talking about this when almost no one out in the real world actually gives much of a s**t about the exact date.
For the most part it's the domain of a tiny % of extremists and mainly white dorks on the internet.
For the most part it's the domain of a tiny % of extremists and mainly white dorks on the internet.
