Shamed Greenies still want to BAN Australia Day

[Juliar]

Booty doesn't look very hard.

Ita's influence can be seen here as this is quite a balanced article.



It's not just Australia Day — national holidays are 'almost always political'
ABC Radio National By Joey Watson Updated 16 minutes ago


PHOTO: A sign saying "change the date" with the word date crossed out and replaced with "system". Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people see January 26 as "Invasion Day" or "Survival Day". (ABC News: Bridget Brennan)

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Australia Day, which commemorates the landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove, has become a source of deep division and debate.

In recent years many have called for a new national holiday that respects the experience of Indigenous Australians — though others believe the January 26 date should stay put.

And while few other national days attract the same controversy as Australia Day, the politics around the celebration are an example of a global trend.

"National days and national celebrations are part of a national narrative, and these are almost always political," political psychologist James Liu says.

So what do national days represent in comparable countries?

How does Australia Day survive?

Read on here...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-24/ ... d/11886420

[Juliar]

There are articles galore on Australia Day on the NEW cleansed ABC returning to its Public Charter.



Invasion Day protests held around country as debate over Australia Day continues
Updated 26 Jan 2019, 5:49pm

VIDEO: Protesters explain why they want Australia Day to be marked in a different way. (ABC News) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-26/ ... s/10753442

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Thousands of protesters have gathered around the country, calling for changes to the way the nation marks Australia Day.

Key points:
Thousands gathered at Victoria's Parliament House to protest Australia Day this morning
Some wanted a date change, others called for the holiday to be abandoned
About two dozen people gathered to protest Australia Day on London's Westminster Bridge

January 26 marks the anniversary of Captain Arthur Philip arriving with the First Fleet in Port Jackson, New South Wales, a date now seen by many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as "Invasion Day" or "Survival Day".

Those at Saturday's rallies said the day marks the theft and dispossession of Indigenous people, and should not be celebrated.

They gathered by the thousands throughout Australia, holding up banners on the steps of Parliament House in Victoria, marching through Hyde Park in Sydney and converging on Brisbane's CBD.


PHOTO: Protesters held their fists in the air at the rally in Brisbane. (ABC News: Lucy Murray)

Read on here...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-26/ ... e/10752882

[The Reboot]

Balanced? You didn't read those articles, did you.

[Juliar]

But Booty you are used to the OLD ABC where minority views were given precedence.

[Redneck]

It should be renamed FUCK YOU COONS day!

Get over it and go and get a job you lazy bums!

[Neferti]

It should be renamed FUCK YOU COONS day!

Get over it and go and get a job you lazy bums!

[Juliar]

Does resorting to profanity suggest a disturbed mind ?

Now even more Australia Day celebration from the revamped purged cleansed ABC.



Australia Day can be a time for hope, not resentment
By Stan Grant Posted 26 Jan 2019, 6:00am


PHOTO: Stan Grant is a First Nations Australian and ABC Indigenous Affairs Analyst. (ABC News)

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Hope. On this Australia Day, that's what I'm thinking about: hope.

Odd, maybe — I am an Indigenous person — Kamilaroi, Wiradjuri, Dharrawall, to be more specific and respectful — you might expect me to talk about trauma, invasion, colonisation.

Certainly, those things cannot be ignored; those things that the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz once called "the memory of wounds".

These wounds are real; for so many, the legacy of this country's history hangs like a dead weight.

Where is hope? When we are reminded almost daily of the tragedy of Aboriginal youth suicide; children as young as 10 years old who cannot face another day of life in our country.

Yet, without hope, where are we?

Hope is the oxygen in our blood; resentment is its poison.

German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote about the resentful man, caught in a time warp, returning always to the source of injustice that he cannot fix and does not want to fix.

History, for him, is a festering wound, to be picked at over and over, never allowing it to heal. His suffering is his strength; his weakness the greatest weapon he has over his oppressor:

"His soul squints; his mind loves hidden crannies, tortuous paths and backdoors […] he is past master in silence, in not forgetting …"


PHOTO: Indigenous boys waving Union Jacks greet Queen Elizabeth in Cooktown in 1970. (Queensland State Archives)


Read on here...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-26/ ... y/10747000

[Neferti]

Stan Grant looks VERY tanned, has he been holidaying at the beach somewhere?

[Valkie]

We SHOUKD simply ban greenies.

And make them fill in a 30 page document and charge a cost to any protests, that will stop the abbos.

[The Reboot]

But Booty you are used to the OLD ABC where minority views were given precedence.

For fuck's sake make up your mind which way you "swing". One minute you criticize the ABC for lefty bias, the next you stick up for it.

Does resorting to profanity suggest a disturbed mind ?

Nah. It's called being Australian!