Will you be working on Australia Day?

[igon value]

The Saturday Paper currently have a campaign to boycott Australia Day. Part of that campaign involves encouraging firms to ask their workers to forgo the public holiday, in exchange for an extra day of leave:

The Saturday Paper continues to contact artists and performers to encourage them to pull out of Australia Day concerts, to speak to businesses to encourage their staff to work the holiday, to meet with organisers and encourage them to reconsider the timing of their events.

The law firm Marque took a vote of its staff to join the boycott, and it carried overwhelmingly. The practice will now close on January 27 instead.

A number of firms have done the same, and they are listed in the article.

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2016/12/24/join-the-australia-day-boycott/14824980004124

So a show of hands - who will be working on Australia Day as a protest against celebrating dispossession?

 

[Reynolds Number]

No. Have no choice. Unless there is some one off casual day work to do. However I am likely to be umpiring and recovering from a hangover from the progressive dinner the night before.

I am pretty apathetic to be honest. I have celebrated Australia Day on numerous occassions. Although I would not be against the moving of the day.

 

[WA ROO]

Nope
Booked the Friday off aswell

 

[Lebbo73]

I plan on taking the day off and driving a couple of hours to work on my golf swing. I don't celebrate Australia Day but I don't buy into the Invasion Day bs as well.

 

[radiojake]

I work as little as possible

 

[JackOutback]

I am pretty apathetic to be honest. I have celebrated Australia Day on numerous occassions. Although I would not be against the moving of the day.

Same; unless you're some history fanatic who holds the date of the First Fleet landing close to your heart, I don't understand getting upset at the prospect of moving it. Hell, it's only been a public holiday for the past 20 odd years. I enjoy the day off in summer, I enjoy the Hottest 100, but I would enjoy it equally on any other day. As for the thread, Thursday is my regular day off, so won't make a difference to me, other than I can invite some friends round who would otherwise be working.

 

[Nikita Blue]

I'm a vegetarian so pretty sure I am not allowed to celebrate it.

 

[igon value]

I work as little as possible

Good stuff.

I wonder, is this where left wing politics is at? Campaigning for bosses to cajole workers to work on public holidays?

 

[aCunningPlan]

I'm working, we don't celebrate Australia Day at all in my workplace, indeed any mention of the day is heavily frowned upon...as it does not exist there.

 

[Gough]

I'm going to the cricket.
What does everyone think of the new lamb ad btw?

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

It certainly has turned into a massive piss up these days. It barely registered on the scale when I was younger. Australia Day honours lists and Citizenship ceremonies and barbeques was about it for the day.

I'll be working, just another day for me.

 

[WA ROO]

I'm going to the cricket.
What does everyone think of the new lamb ad btw?

Cancelled lamb roast

 

[kwikfix]

Invasion day....

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

It's a day for flag waving morons. They get pissed, start fights. Go home, start fights.

I enjoy the day off.

 

[Gough]

It certainly has turned into a massive piss up these days. It barely registered on the scale when I was younger. Australia Day honours lists and Citizenship ceremonies and barbeques was about it for the day.

I'll be working, just another day for me.

I sat out most of the Howard government overseas, and when I came back the manner in which the day was marked had changed noticeably, rather than a commemoration, it had become a celebration.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

I sat out most of the Howard government overseas, and when I came back the manner in which the day was marked had changed noticeably, rather than a commemoration, it had become a celebration.

For the young blokes that I work with it almost ranks in front of NYE. There's always a fight over who gets leave for it.

 

[Brunswick Trap King]

I'm going to the cricket.
What does everyone think of the new lamb ad btw?

I watched the ad yesterday and I thought it was pretty bad on two counts that tend to contradict each other. Firstly, it was a bit lame. I'm all for inclusion but it was a little too weak. However, the attempt to be so inclusive was strongly undermined by the start of the ad. I cringed so so hard when I saw the depiction of whites being greeted by the indigenous Australians. I thought it was really bad taste to downplay the massacring that really occurred and reimagine it as some sort of happy barbecue. I really found that to be quite disrespectful and a whitewashing of history.

 

[igon value]

I think "who cares, it's an ad".

 

[JackOutback]

Do people still watch commercials?

 

[Lebbo73]

It's a day for flag waving morons. They get pissed, start fights. Go home, start fights.

I enjoy the day off.

Now that we know what you are doing, how about everyone else

 

[little graham]

I don't buy into the Invasion Day bs as well.

If your ancestors were dispossessed, slaughtered and had their land and their children stolen, would you celebrate the date on which that all began?Obviously, you wouldn’t. It’s simply insane that anyone could expect Aboriginal people to embrace January 26 as the national day, given what it means to them.

The most common refrain against this is, ‘It’s time to move on’. Here’s the problem with that statement.
If you apply the same logic to non-Aboriginal Australia, then we should stop commemorating Anzac Day. ‘It’s time to move on. The wars were years ago.’

https://newmatilda.com/2016/01/26/c...lia-day-is-so-offensive-to-aboriginal-people/[/QUOTE]

 

[Bunk Moreland]

A social campaign based on getting people to go to work on a day off.

This should be successful

 

[ep2018]

Aussie day has always been BBQ and cricket, with family. for me. Piss ups were on NYE and New Years day.

 

[ep2018]

I'm a vegetarian so pretty sure I am not allowed to celebrate it.

Capsicum on the BBQ goes well.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Invasion day....

You got this from a neo-nazi facebook page you follow.