Stralya Day

[IQS.RLOW]

Imagine Australia was a big share house and someone said “hey let’s have a big party this Saturday.” But you say “Can we not do it Saturday, that’s the date my dad died.”

Now good house mates would say...

Suck it up buttercup. If we had to poll every sad sack of shit with a grievance monkey on his back, there would be no party and no history.
This party is a long standing tradition and has been held every year on the same day for over 200 years.

Would hate for you to see the good time we will have and given you think your feelings trump everyone else's, we've decided to save you from it. Go fuck yourself, you're no longer invited. You have until the end of the week to vacate the premises. See you next Tuesday.

[Raven]

Except it hasn’t be held on the same day every year for 200 years, you ignorant fluffy bunny.

If you want to ignore history, go ahead. Just shows you are a dumb fuck.

[The Mechanic]

wow

where did that come from?

[The Mechanic]

The first Australia Day: 30 July 1915

By Bill Brown

The NSW village of Candelo was one of the communities all over Australia that celebrated the first Australia Day on 30 July 1915.
It was the original Australia Day, a national event to raise funds for troops wounded at Gallipoli.PrintEmailPermalinkShare
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The date we now call Australia Day, January 26, to celebrate the British settlement of Australia in 1788, was in those days called Foundation Day.

It wasn't until 1935 that January 26 was termed Australia Day in all Australian states and territories.

The first Australia Day was a response to Australia's involvement in World War One at a time when the young country was shaping its new national identity.

The idea of a national day for raise funds to support wounded troops came from the mother of four servicemen.
The agreed date was July 30 and the day would be called Australia Day.

Australian troops were fighting at Gallipoli and there was a patriotic mood across the country.

Communities all over Australia organised fundraising events for the newly announced Australia Day.

The week before the newly declared Australia Day the local newspaper in the small village of Candelo published a challenge for donations from Mr A. Champneys:

"Surely the best that it is us must now come out; and if unable to take our places in the firing line, we must do the next best thing and help to the fulness [sic] of our means those who bravely go and fight so we may live.

"Remember Gallipoli!

"I will give 25 pounds (approximately $2,400) if nine others will do the same, or I will give 50 pounds if four others do the same."

(One pound in 1915 is the equivalent of approximately 98 dollars in 2015 - source: RBA inflation calculator)

The day was celebrated in the town hall with speeches, patriotic songs from school children, raffles, and a band.

The village raised 511 pounds from individual donations and proceeds from a euchre party, dances, raffles, and sales of donated produce including three calves, plants, two pairs of fowls, six bags of chaff, one turkey, one ham, one peacock, one cheese, and one cauliflower.

Mr Champneys donated 25 pounds as promised, although only seven others matched him, including his wife.

The Candelo Southern Record described it as 'a resolute practical effort on behalf of the men who have been stricken in battle'.

Similar efforts across NSW raised 839,000 pounds and in Victoria raised 311,500 pounds.

[The Mechanic]

Sandy Turner's - Fair Crack of the Whip Mate

While we celebrate our great nation, some are intent on destroying it.

Councils including Victoria's Darebin, Yarra and Moreland, Western Australia's Fremantle and NSW's Byron have have displayed their divisiveness and hatred of all things Australian.

Ms Rennie said Darebin is "opposed to Australia's national celebration being held on January 26 out of respect for local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who have told us that they experience a day of sadness, pain and disconnection".

The fools from these politically correct councils have absolutely NO IDEA of what the truth is!
https://tinyurl.com/yd7obqoo

When Cook claimed this land in the name of the British Empire he called it New South Wales. That was on Possession Island and the date was 21st August 1770.
https://www.mysticstamp.com/…/this-day- ... y-august-2…/

Even when the First Fleet dropped anchor on 18th Jan 1788 this land was still known as New South Wales.
https://www.thisdayinworldhistory.com/j ... -1788-the-…/

It wasn't until Matthew Flinders circumnavigated Terra Australis it became known as Australia.
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/encounter/fli ... ngaust.htm

The ferals rocking the boat are doing this for their own ends. Disunity is the sole reason they exist. Unfortunately there are many uneducated people being sucked in by them.

These people believe blindly what they are told. It portrays them as hard done by and dispossessed. The world owes them because everyone knows it is hard to live on Centrelink benefits.

If they would come up for air even just for a minute they may discover the truth. A country full of people trying to get along with each other.

There is not a man or woman alive today that perpetrated anything from 1788 or the next century upon the people already inhabiting this country.

Why do we hear so much about the raucous 1% crying foul? Media love headlines. Disunity creates headlines. Media are creating their own jobs by promoting hate and disunity.

Tomorrow night it will be a 1 minute news story then onto the celebrations the other 99% participated in.

I take my hat off to Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine for promoting unity and mending the fences broken by that 1% intent on destroying this nation.
https://tinyurl.com/yap5x9yf

We need more people like them in our society.

I hope each and every one of you reading this have a fantastic Australia Day. May your BBQ be hot and your drink cold.

Aussie Aussie Aussie, OI OI OI. Best country on the planet and we are lucky enough to live here.

[brian ross]

26 January - leave it to NSW.
1 January - Yes!

[Black Orchid]

1st January, New Years Day and already a national holiday, would have to be the worst suggestion yet.

[Gordon]

26 January - leave it to NSW.
1 January - Yes!

Why are you in favour of decisive yet empty gestures rather than things that would actually improve the lives of Aborigines?

[Neferti]

Brian is a regressive ...

[Gordon]

Brian is a regressive ...

Lets say they change the day, nothing will actually change.
5 year old Aboriginal kids will still be diagnosed with chlamydia, they'll still have 4 times the rate of diabetes, still live in squalor.

I'd prefer any academically bright Aboriginal kids be given 6 years of board and tuition at a good private school in the city.
Do that for a 1000 kids every year and their society will start to transform.