Australia Day 2025

A recent poll showed that 61% of people were happy for Australia Day to stay where it is on the 26th January.

This is a rise from around 47% two years ago and funnily enough that 61% is virtually the same percentage of the population that rejected the Voice referendum.

Bottom line is that people (the silent majority) are sick and tired of Corporations and left wing lunatics trying to ram some of this divisive shit down our throats.

I despise the way that Albo and some Corporations tried to divide this country with the voice referendum and Albo refusing to answer questions about it and then when it was resoundingly defeated he wiped his hands of the whole thing and basically walked away from it saying it wasn't his problem.

Would not matter if you changed the date there would still be greenies and left wing lunatics protesting, attending Invasion Day Rallies, defacing or cutting down statues of our Colonial past, demanding reparations and the return of the land and waterways that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders occupied before colonization, this would happen regardless of the day it was held.

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In another online survey of supposedly 21,000 people it was found that 87 percent of people wanted the date to stay the same, only 12 per cent of respondents backed calls to change the date, and one per cent advocated for no celebration at all.
 
Tucker said:
Thankyou Chad, you’ve explained this position more articulately than I did.
Yes it’s about community and yes it’s why I love these two holiday periods. Everyone mixing together and being happy, sharing stories and getting to know one another. Those saying they can’t understand pride in where you live are crazy to me. Look at what this joint has collectively achieved in less than 2 & 1/2 centuries…no one is saying it’s all been good, far from it. However there’s a lot about Australia that makes it an awesome home to us all. It’s beautiful, the people are diverse, interesting and laidback with a rogue sense of humour and the weather is pretty excellent. No -30 degree blizzards or 50+ heatwaves that last for weeks. We get a lot of natural disasters, and we always galvanise and help each other through it. We have scientists, business leaders, academics, sports stars and artists all standing tall on the world stage. We punch above our weight and try to be good global citizens. I’m proud of this country and am always happy to come home to it.
You and I have just returned from Bali Chad…gorgeous country, amazing, happy and respectful people…I couldn’t live there though, not as a person still working. It’s too hectic. I’ve worked there on occasion a few times and it’s a hard graft. I lived in Saigon as a young man. 18 months was enough. Did 2 years in Singapore. Even that was a slog at times. Australia is home and I’m glad it is.

On a personal note, it doesn’t matter to me if you acknowledge the day or if you choose not to. However if you choose to protest it and denigrate it on the one day we are assigned to celebrate it, then you are scum not worth a second of my time. There are unfortunately lots of these trash bags in our cities and that’s something the communities need to work on.
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Yeah mate- going to places like Bali open the eyes.

Certainly makes you realise how good we have things. We can drink water, straight from a tap. Just like that. We have walls & windows all around the house. I saw houses missing whole walls & people living in them. We can drive straight down roads, easy. No need to weave around what should be a 1 way street populated by 4 lanes of traffic.

I've been to Bali, China, Thailand, nearly every European country, the UK, Dubai, New Zealand...

And I can find a million things I like about all of those places.

But Australia has so many things going for it, that we just take for granted. We are lucky. Even if you feel unlucky. Maybe I should say- we ARE privileged.

The only thing that really messes that up here...is us. We create our own drama & drag the enjoyment down. Instead of finding things to moan about, if everyone worked at getting to know the people around you, even just a LITTLE bit...and stop judging them for a belief, lifestyle, colour or the expense of the car they drive...maybe people would realise how good things actually are.

Not trying to sound like a peace loving hippie. It just becomes increasingly more obvious, the older I get, that we are our own worst enemy most of the time. Even our crap politicians are less crap than the crappy ones overseas.
 
The Chad said:
Yeah mate- going to places like Bali open the eyes.

Certainly makes you realise how good we have things. We can drink water, straight from a tap. Just like that. We have walls & windows all around the house. I saw houses missing whole walls & people living in them. We can drive straight down roads, easy. No need to weave around what should be a 1 way street populated by 4 lanes of traffic.

I've been to Bali, China, Thailand, nearly every European country, the UK, Dubai, New Zealand...

And I can find a million things I like about all of those places.

But Australia has so many things going for it, that we just take for granted. We are lucky. Even if you feel unlucky. Maybe I should say- we ARE privileged.

The only thing that really messes that up here...is us. We create our own drama & drag the enjoyment down. Instead of finding things to moan about, if everyone worked at getting to know the people around you, even just a LITTLE bit...and stop judging them for a belief, lifestyle, colour or the expense of the car they drive...maybe people would realise how good things actually are.

Not trying to sound like a peace loving hippie. It just becomes increasingly more obvious, the older I get, that we are our own worst enemy most of the time. Even our crap politicians are less crap than the crappy ones overseas.
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Thats wonderful Chad. Hope the fluoride in your tap water tastes great.
 
The Chad said:
Yeah mate- going to places like Bali open the eyes.

Certainly makes you realise how good we have things. We can drink water, straight from a tap. Just like that. We have walls & windows all around the house. I saw houses missing whole walls & people living in them. We can drive straight down roads, easy. No need to weave around what should be a 1 way street populated by 4 lanes of traffic.

I've been to Bali, China, Thailand, nearly every European country, the UK, Dubai, New Zealand...

And I can find a million things I like about all of those places.

But Australia has so many things going for it, that we just take for granted. We are lucky. Even if you feel unlucky. Maybe I should say- we ARE privileged.

The only thing that really messes that up here...is us. We create our own drama & drag the enjoyment down. Instead of finding things to moan about, if everyone worked at getting to know the people around you, even just a LITTLE bit...and stop judging them for a belief, lifestyle, colour or the expense of the car they drive...maybe people would realise how good things actually are.

Not trying to sound like a peace loving hippie. It just becomes increasingly more obvious, the older I get, that we are our own worst enemy most of the time. Even our crap politicians are less crap than the crappy ones overseas.
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Can't argue with much there Chad.

Lots of people here spent their days out and about, mixing with different people. The internet has put the lack of connectedness in the community into overdrive imo. The more people disconnect from internet and media vitriol and get out and interact with different people the better we will be for it.

I feel very bloody lucky to live in this country.
 
We need people like you BD. Some one has to have the leaders backs. Im glad you are using your money. You must have some influence in life. Its good to hear the Aussie battler story.
 
The Chad said:
Yeah mate- going to places like Bali open the eyes.

Certainly makes you realise how good we have things. We can drink water, straight from a tap. Just like that. We have walls & windows all around the house. I saw houses missing whole walls & people living in them. We can drive straight down roads, easy. No need to weave around what should be a 1 way street populated by 4 lanes of traffic.

I've been to Bali, China, Thailand, nearly every European country, the UK, Dubai, New Zealand...

And I can find a million things I like about all of those places.

But Australia has so many things going for it, that we just take for granted. We are lucky. Even if you feel unlucky. Maybe I should say- we ARE privileged.

The only thing that really messes that up here...is us. We create our own drama & drag the enjoyment down. Instead of finding things to moan about, if everyone worked at getting to know the people around you, even just a LITTLE bit...and stop judging them for a belief, lifestyle, colour or the expense of the car they drive...maybe people would realise how good things actually are.

Not trying to sound like a peace loving hippie. It just becomes increasingly more obvious, the older I get, that we are our own worst enemy most of the time. Even our crap politicians are less crap than the crappy ones overseas.
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Well said, couldnt agree more
 
Tucker said:
On a personal note, it doesn’t matter to me if you acknowledge the day or if you choose not to. However if you choose to protest it and denigrate it on the one day we are assigned to celebrate it, then you are scum not worth a second of my time. There are unfortunately lots of these trash bags in our cities and that’s something the communities need to work on.
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How does that stance fit with wanting freedom of expression and less censorship and PC stuff? I just think it's problematic when we start to get righteous about what can and can't be protested.

For instance there was huge outcry about covid restriction protests and now a lot of those protesters' arguments seem really valid in hindsight.

I increasingly find it hard to judge people, particularly political and historical arguments where things can be fraught.

I just reckon you'd find a lot of those people would be really decent worthy people. Probably a lot wouldn't too, but to dismiss them all just limits things doesn't it?
 
hank37w said:
A recent poll showed that 61% of people were happy for Australia Day to stay where it is on the 26th January.

This is a rise from around 47% two years ago and funnily enough that 61% is virtually the same percentage of the population that rejected the Voice referendum.

Bottom line is that people (the silent majority) are sick and tired of Corporations and left wing lunatics trying to ram some of this divisive shit down our throats.

I despise the way that Albo and some Corporations tried to divide this country with the voice referendum and Albo refusing to answer questions about it and then when it was resoundingly defeated he wiped his hands of the whole thing and basically walked away from it saying it wasn't his problem.

Would not matter if you changed the date there would still be greenies and left wing lunatics protesting, attending Invasion Day Rallies, defacing or cutting down statues of our Colonial past, demanding reparations and the return of the land and waterways that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders occupied before colonization, this would happen regardless of the day it was held.

EDIT:
In another online survey of supposedly 21,000 people it was found that 87 percent of people wanted the date to stay the same, only 12 per cent of respondents backed calls to change the date, and one per cent advocated for no celebration at all.
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It makes me very sad to see your post. Do you really want to go down this track, promoting your hate and division? Pushing your fake online surveys. It was an invasion but we survived. We want to move on. You would hold our country back. Forever living in your racist colonial past. My father told me to make peace but I’ve come to realise there is no making peace with people like you.
 
What is wrong with you?

I'm supporting the day, I'm the one that hates the way that Albo, the lefties and these corporations have been trying to promote their woke agendas that have been trying to put a wedge in our society and promote this divisiveness, I'm the one that wants to move on.

What is done is done and is in the past, I was not here and did not do anything to hurt anyone, how many times do you have to say sorry for something that you were not responsible for, how much money and reparations does this current generation have to pay to make it right?

The bottom line is that there are activists in our society that will always cause problems and try to create this division, many of these are the same ones that are attending these disgraceful anti-semitic rallies that are being held all over our country on a weekly basis and you have the audacity to accuse me of being some sort of a racist and creating division.

Do you need me to show you where I got the details for these surveys that you seem to think that I made up because whether you believe the results or not, they actually exist and were not made up by me.

You can choose to believe or dismiss the results of those surveys and polls if you wish but you cannot deny that there is a push back by the silent majority against much of this sort of thing.
 
We successfully thwarted the Japanese invasion, but that was at a time when the country was more united and not so much focussed on the erosion of patriotism. Where will the next invasion come from?
 
It is good to see protestors still have the right to voice their concerns publicly if it is in accordance with the law. On a separate issue, I applaud the US Democrats for blocking a Republican attempt to sanction the ICC for issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant.
 
hank37w said:
What is wrong with you?

I'm supporting the day, I'm the one that hates the way that Albo, the lefties and these corporations have been trying to promote their woke agendas that have been trying to put a wedge in our society and promote this divisiveness, I'm the one that wants to move on.
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I'm not very political, but I think the average person is growing tired of everyone labelling everything they don't agree with as a "woke agenda".
 
watersider said:
How does that stance fit with wanting freedom of expression and less censorship and PC stuff? I just think it's problematic when we start to get righteous about what can and can't be protested.

For instance there was huge outcry about covid restriction protests and now a lot of those protesters' arguments seem really valid in hindsight.

I increasingly find it hard to judge people, particularly political and historical arguments where things can be fraught.

I just reckon you'd find a lot of those people would be really decent worthy people. Probably a lot wouldn't too, but to dismiss them all just limits things doesn't it?
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Im not trying to censor them, I just hate that they do this and that is my prerogative.
 
Tucker said:
Im not trying to censor them, I just hate that they do this and that is my prerogative.
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Yep, fair enough, I just wouldn't rule those people out as 'scum'. The left has the same problem when they characterise Convicted Rapist and Felon Donald Convicted Rapist and Felon Donald Trump supporters as evil or stupid or deplorable. This sort of dismissive division which generalises and simplifies isn't very helpful for us.
 
watersider said:
Yep, fair enough, I just wouldn't rule those people out as 'scum'. The left has the same problem when they characterise Convicted Rapist and Felon Donald Convicted Rapist and Felon Donald Trump supporters as evil or stupid or deplorable. This sort of dismissive division which generalises and simplifies isn't very helpful for us.
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I’m not calling people on the left scum…pussies maybe…
I’m pointing directly at this rent a crowd full of professional protesters.
 
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