Australia day festivities

[mellie]

I am a little disappointed with our local Australia Day festivities this year, heres an itinerary, see if you can determine why.


http://beta.thehills.nsw.gov.au/files/a ... rogram.pdf

Hint, we wont be going until around 5 or 6pm.

For 365 days a year we accommodate all cultures ...why the hell cant we just have one day dedicated to celebrating our own unique Australian culture?

What has Bollywood and Chinese dancing got to do with Australia day festivities?

11.45am Multicultural performance, Chinese Traditional
Fan Dance and Drummer by Association of the Mandarin
Speaking Residents in The Hills Inc Community Stage
12.00pm Sheep Shearing demonstration
12.00pm Mick Joffe Caricature Drawings (until 1.30pm) Packing Shed
12.00pm Sister2Sister School of Singing Fig Trees
present GIGlife (finishes at 6pm)
12.05pm Multicultural performance
Bollywood Performance by The Virasat Folk Academy Community Stage
12.25pm Multicultural performance, Thousand Hands
of the Goddess by Pretty Sunset Dance Group Community Stage
12:30pm Multicultural performance, Traditional Tibetan Dance,
Kang Ding Qing Ge, by Sydney Chinese Folk Dance Group

It's supposed to be Australia day, is this really necessary?

[mellie]

Is it racist to simply want to celebrate our own nations culture one day a year?

Is this asking too much?

[Neferti]

If you live in Melbourne, this is what is going on down there.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/m ... 7192426307

[Neferti]

If you live in Canberra here is what is on today. There was a FREE concert on the lawns of Parliament House last night too.

http://www.eventfinda.com.au/whatson/events/canberra

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-25/c ... ay/6045404

[Neferti]

Is it racist to simply want to celebrate our own nations culture one day a year?

Is this asking too much?

Canberra has its very own Multicultural Festival ... think it is next month, can't remember. I went once. It is a piss-up in Civic (Canberra CBD) with flocks of people wandering around drinking beer and eating "things on a stick". Various food stalls, etc and some "ethnic music" sort of things. Not my cup of tea and I have never bothered going again.

[boxy]

Sir Prince Phillip

[IQS.RLOW]

Sir Prince Phillip

Is a great pic for an Aussie knighthood.

His un-pc sayings are more Australian than the simpering mewlings of softcock Australian lefties.

[mellie]

Currently, i'm in Sydney, NSW, and think we already have a "multicultural" day devoted to celebrating our nations peoples diverse cultures.

Must they commandeer Australia Day too?



I think Australians on the whole are very accommodating when it comes to other nations cultures here in Australia, though can the same be said for them, when it comes to them respecting our Australian culture just one day a year?


Would sheep shearing and Aussie folk/bush dancing be tolerated at a Chinese New Years celebration in Chinatown Sydney?

I think not.

[boxy]

Sir Prince Phillip

Is a great pic for an Aussie knighthood.

His un-pc sayings are more Australian than the simpering mewlings of softcock Australian lefties.

Toadying is so un-Australian

[Rorschach]

The Prime Minister said Prince Philip and the other new knight, Air Chief Marshal (retired) Angus Houston, were "eminently suitable recipients" of the award.

He said Prince Philip was being acknowledged for a long life of duty and service and as a "great servant" of Australia.

"He's the patron of hundreds of organisations. He's the inspiration and wellspring of the Duke of Edinburgh's Awards which have provided leadership training for tens if not hundreds of thousands of Australians over the years," Mr Abbott said.

"I'm just really pleased that in his 90s, towards the end of a life of service and duty, we in this country are able to properly acknowledge what he's done for us."

Prince Philip joins his son, Prince Charles, who was made a Knight of the Order of Australia in 1981.