Fremantle to axe its Australia Day celebrations

[Outlaw Yogi]

I presume that the "indigenous people" are still pushing to have the word aboriginal, or whatever, in our Constitution?

As somebody remarked, somewhere, IF you were born in Australia and your parents were born in Australia and your grandparents are buried in Australia, then you ARE indigenous.

Also, isn't somebody pushing to have some sort of check/DNA test for your aboriginality BEFORE you can claim a hand out? At the moment every form you fill out has a slot to tick ... I've often wondered what would happen if you actually did tick that box? Do you need to provide PROOF that you have aboriginal blood running in your veins?

Read an article in the Australian recently stating that Aboriginal land councils want some form of formal register of Aboriginality because 1 in 5 claims for hand outs/freebies are fraudulent.

But then you only have to be 1/32nd Aboriginal to qualify for Aboriginal benefits.
A mate of mine in Sydney shacked up with a woman who had 5 kids.
One of her daughters, with blonde hair and freckles qualified because she was 1/32nd Aboriginal.

As for this political correct agenda to rename everything Australian to something neo-poofy multi-woginal, the left wing identity politics social engineers behind it must be ignorant of modern history. It is precisely weirdo agendas like these that generate anti-elite rebellions. And anti-intelligensia/academia revolutions can easily swing to outright fascism.

Brexit, Trump, Hanson ect are just the beginning of the push back. If the left keep getting away with perverting social norms, sooner or later we'll go full circle back to prohibition of homosexuality and racial segregation, amoungst other extremes.

As I've written numerous times previously, public political sentiment is like a pendulum swinging back and forth, and when we swing one way too far, we generally swing back further the other way in retaliation. The easiest analogy to illustrate this is Nazi Germany.


As for renaming Australia Day as Invasion Day, I have no problem with that. I'll still celebrate it anyway.
We won, they lost. Hooray for us.

[Black Orchid]

The Federal Government is threatening to revoke the City of Fremantle's power to hold citizenship ceremonies over its decision to move Australia Day celebrations to another day in a bid to create a more "culturally inclusive" celebration.

Earlier this year the council voted against the traditional fireworks display, in favour of hosting an event that has now been confirmed for January 28, two days after the public holiday.

West Australian Liberal MP Ben Morton flagged his concerns about the council's actions in a letter to the Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Alex Hawke.

Today, Mr Hawke wrote to the Fremantle Council, urging it to reconsider or face the prospect of having its power to preside over citizenship ceremonies removed.

"The Government's position is very clear; if the council are unable to reconcile their political views with their civic duty, I will consider revoking authorisation from those persons in the City of Fremantle who can currently receive a pledge of commitment at citizenship ceremonies," Mr Hawke said in a statement.

"I note this has occurred twice in the last decade and the Government will be monitoring the situation closely.

"Fremantle Council has conducted Australian Citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day for the last five years, and the Government would strongly encourage this important tradition to continue."

Mr Morton, who is the Liberal Member for Tangney, said it was "a disgrace" to deny new citizens a ceremony on Australia Day.

"This politically correct, backward-looking approach from the council actually divides Australians and takes us further away from reconciliation," he said in a statement.

Take that Fremantle!!!