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<blockquote data-quote="Occams Barber" data-source="post: 77109850" data-attributes="member: 313365"><p>I wrote this (below) a couple of years ago the last time the subject came up. Support for getting rid of Australia Day and replacing it with a day we can all acknowledge is slowly growing. We now have a number of large commercial enterprises allowing staff to substitute a different day of their choosing.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>There have been Australians in Australia for 60,000 years. That’s 60,000 years of Australian history and pre-history before the British arrived in 1788.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>While the arrival of British colonisation is a major event in Australia’s history, to suggest that it is the event we should commemorate as a national celebration for all Australians effectively ignores all that was before the British arrived. It also ignores the negative impact that a colonial presence has had, and is still having, on Indigenous Australians.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>We need a day that has a positive meaning for all Australians. As well as our Indigenous people we now have Australians who originate from all over Europe, from India, from Asia, from the Americas and from Africa. The cultural significance of a British act of colonisation is slowly being diluted by Australians for whom Britishness is not a part of their cultural heritage.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>We need a new Australia Day to celebrate the fact that we <strong>all </strong>own Australia.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>OB</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Occams Barber, post: 77109850, member: 313365"] I wrote this (below) a couple of years ago the last time the subject came up. Support for getting rid of Australia Day and replacing it with a day we can all acknowledge is slowly growing. We now have a number of large commercial enterprises allowing staff to substitute a different day of their choosing. [INDENT][I]There have been Australians in Australia for 60,000 years. That’s 60,000 years of Australian history and pre-history before the British arrived in 1788.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I][/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]While the arrival of British colonisation is a major event in Australia’s history, to suggest that it is the event we should commemorate as a national celebration for all Australians effectively ignores all that was before the British arrived. It also ignores the negative impact that a colonial presence has had, and is still having, on Indigenous Australians.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I][/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]We need a day that has a positive meaning for all Australians. As well as our Indigenous people we now have Australians who originate from all over Europe, from India, from Asia, from the Americas and from Africa. The cultural significance of a British act of colonisation is slowly being diluted by Australians for whom Britishness is not a part of their cultural heritage.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I][/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]We need a new Australia Day to celebrate the fact that we [B]all [/B]own Australia.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]OB[/I][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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