fatboyonabike
Captain oblivious
ease up there tiger...now you're walking on shaky ground!Get rid of this and the anzac day rubbish.
ease up there tiger...now you're walking on shaky ground!Get rid of this and the anzac day rubbish.
I'm thinking the same thing, why do we need a day anyway?No change of date - abolish the day - don't rename it - placates all parties then - it just does not exist
Labour day weekend innit? (In Vic anyway)...people won’t stand to lose an existing public holiday.Change the date but make it a floating day like first Monday in March. Then we can celebrate for a weekend guaranteed. I’m not sure how people don’t get it’s not the right date, it might not change the past but it at least changes the future.
No....No, it really doesn'tThis thread needs more zaf.
He asked me to say he agrees.This thread needs more zaf.
Are the new drugs not working for the voices in your head again?He asked me to say he agrees.
‘Our’ heads.Are the new drugs not working for the voices in your head again?
only because the Aus Gubbinment decided to mythologize the commemoration of a military clusterfuck. Anzac day should have been allowed to quietly fade away, rather than becoming some sort of Bogan Holy week.ease up there tiger...now you're walking on shaky ground!
‘Our’ heads.
When I first moved to Canberra, in my general ignorance I went to the dawn service thing at the war memorial. Left feeling soiled... it was disgusting.only because the Aus Gubbinment decided to mythologize the commemoration of a military clusterfuck. Anzac day should have been allowed to quietly fade away, rather than becoming some sort of Bogan Holy week.
My grandfather was a ships doctor during WW2. He never spoke about it to me, but my folks say that he saw some horrific shit, trying to stitch soldiers back together. Anyone who glorifies war is a fucking idiot.
Ok - 2nd Friday in February then.... And agree no bogan will lose a day... Call it Australian Nations day instead then it includes 1st nations and all the other nations that came after...Labour day weekend innit? (In Vic anyway)...people won’t stand to lose an existing public holiday.
Playing devils advocate here, not something that concerns me. I don’t think we need a day unless it’s something that indigenous Australians support.
I get you don’t want to start a shit fight but you just don’t get it. You could attribute all of those social issues impacting on aboriginal Australians to the fact they were invaded on the ground of ‘no human lived here’, told they were not human, treated worse than dogs, given alcohol, had their children stolen under the cover of some weird ‘won’t someone think of the children’ bullshit, etc etc.Without wanting to start a shit fight, what is the end game for all this?
If we change the date, how will that help the Aborigines in poverty, drug addiction, poor health?.....
Yeah, they were invaded, and its bad, BUT how will cancelling Australia Day help them???
When Kevin Rudd said 'sorry', werent we meant to move on?