twentyforty
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These people are full time protesters, you’d think they could get it right by now. 😂
Australia Day 2025
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hank37w
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Yeah, that a stupid Socialist/Communist smile. 🤣
These Greenies are just like water melons, green on the outside but red on the inside.
No longer are the greenies actually all about the trees and nature, they are trying to destroy our society with their far left wing ideology and have been playing the long game for many years now working on trying to brain wash whole generation by infiltrating the education system and public institutions slowly eroding values.
Note the display of the Palestinian flag which can also be linked to the water melon as the watermelon symbol rose to defy Israeli restrictions on the Palestinian flag from around the late 1960's and continues to be used today as an expression of Palestinian nationalism worldwide.
Rock Hopper Steve
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Don't get me started on those pro pals hank if they are so passionate about it why don't they go over and fight, as for the discussed mob above where is a tanker filled with Pea Beu when you need it.
upthetigers
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Sports organisations should stay out of politics/religion. Look at the Manly pride jersey boycott why should players be forced to promote something they don't believe in.
GNR4LIFE
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Neither do I. I always harken back to George Carlin’s bit about how there is no such as thing as national pride. Pride is something derived from achievement. No one achieves being born a particular nationality for where you were born. I think you can be thankful and grateful. But it’s not a pride thing.
innsaneink
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Yeah well said I never understood the proud thing either.... Especially when it comes to nationality I would describe how I feel as grateful or thankful to have been born here.
twentyforty
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That woman should be getting questioned by ASIO.
When you read the 2 signs separately they seem innocent enough, but together it appears to be threatening. The slice of watermelon has the same colours as the flag on her right.
Tim Sheens
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I haven't celebrated since the bicentenary, when in the afternoon I realised that if a national day should be celebrated, then ours needed to be changed, just like we had to no longer sing God Save The Queen to begin our school days.
I spent this one mostly enjoying the scenery on a bus crossing the north NZ island from Auckland to Wellington, thinking about the similarities of it's colonisation, some reading about ramped up deportations across the Pacific that include other colonised peoples, and pondering the below.
I spent this one mostly enjoying the scenery on a bus crossing the north NZ island from Auckland to Wellington, thinking about the similarities of it's colonisation, some reading about ramped up deportations across the Pacific that include other colonised peoples, and pondering the below.
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Tucker
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Yeah it was great.
Good neighbours, not intimidated at all, told funny stories and got on it.
We made them do a push-up everytime they mentioned the heat lol…good people.
Tucker
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Without our history you wouldn’t have got to do any of that.
Only sounds like you did celebrate it going by your last paragraph, in what I would consider an almost perfect setting.
Kaito
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British history??
Kaito
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Drill instructor with union jack flip flops 😝
Cmon Kaito, Australian history........the good the bad and the ugly, its why we are here doing what we do today.
Kaito
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Mate I'm just messing with him all good 👍
The Chad
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Words (actions/beliefs) like pride, history, patriotism etc....create sides (divides?). There's always someone that thinks the opposite.
Australia Day, Independence Day...any kind of nationalistic day....should (and could) be an opportunity to foster a spirit of togetherness. Pride, not in a place, but in looking at the guy/girl next to you & doing as Tucker did- joining together DESPITE the differences & just enjoying the opportunity to foster community.
Interesting that Tucker mentioned Australia Day & Christmas.
Probably the best opportunities to be 'nice' to everyone. It DOESN'T have to be about religion (Christmas) or any political agenda (Australia Day)- couldn't people as a whole just use it as an opportunity to not be a complete
Australia Day, Independence Day...any kind of nationalistic day....should (and could) be an opportunity to foster a spirit of togetherness. Pride, not in a place, but in looking at the guy/girl next to you & doing as Tucker did- joining together DESPITE the differences & just enjoying the opportunity to foster community.
Interesting that Tucker mentioned Australia Day & Christmas.
Probably the best opportunities to be 'nice' to everyone. It DOESN'T have to be about religion (Christmas) or any political agenda (Australia Day)- couldn't people as a whole just use it as an opportunity to not be a complete
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Tucker
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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.
I remember going to an Australia Day event in the late 80s with my Aboriginal grandmother, my migrant Dad who didn't speak much english and my brother.
From memory, it was pretty boring. There was damper and a few Captain Cook style re-enactments. A couple of flags. Mostly white Australian faces. Overall there were not many people. Most just appreciated an extra day off to mow the lawn or go to the beach and it was like that for many, many years.
Fast forward to the 2020s and it seemed to me like things seem had taken a sad turn. It's no surprise that Australia Day has become a political football for all parts of the political spectrum and is used quite deliberately to divide people. Over the past few years this has really turned me off Australia Day. I even had an Aboriginal boss a few years back who pressured me to go to a 'Survival Day' event ( don't tell her, but in the end, I just stayed home and built a pergola!).
This year I reluctantly walked my doggo to the local park along with my family for my council's celebrations and was pleasantly surprised with what I saw.
The park was packed with people just having a good time and getting along. My area has a huge number of migrants and first generation Aussies from Indian, polynesian or muslim backgrounds along with a mix of Australians who have been here for longer. Lots of Australian flags were on display along with people proudly holding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags.
For all the political hype I'd been hearing over who is Australian, who isn't Australian, whether there's a better date, whether Coles should sell Australia flag crap that's made in China etc, I wasn't expecting to see this!
The day was genuinely inclusive of the full range of Australian history, from the first inhabitants through to the most recent migrants and all that they've contributed.
It really struck me that despite politicians, news outlets and other various group using the day for political purposes, Aussies of all backgrounds are mostly just getting on with life and are way more unified than some would have you believe.
To top it off, I grabbed some chicken biryani and knafeh on the way home. For mine, it's way better than damper and a snag.
My big takeaway from the whole day is while some things in Australia have changed a lot since that first Australia Day event I went to, don't listen to the media, sooks and politicians, we're still doing ok!
From memory, it was pretty boring. There was damper and a few Captain Cook style re-enactments. A couple of flags. Mostly white Australian faces. Overall there were not many people. Most just appreciated an extra day off to mow the lawn or go to the beach and it was like that for many, many years.
Fast forward to the 2020s and it seemed to me like things seem had taken a sad turn. It's no surprise that Australia Day has become a political football for all parts of the political spectrum and is used quite deliberately to divide people. Over the past few years this has really turned me off Australia Day. I even had an Aboriginal boss a few years back who pressured me to go to a 'Survival Day' event ( don't tell her, but in the end, I just stayed home and built a pergola!).
This year I reluctantly walked my doggo to the local park along with my family for my council's celebrations and was pleasantly surprised with what I saw.
The park was packed with people just having a good time and getting along. My area has a huge number of migrants and first generation Aussies from Indian, polynesian or muslim backgrounds along with a mix of Australians who have been here for longer. Lots of Australian flags were on display along with people proudly holding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags.
For all the political hype I'd been hearing over who is Australian, who isn't Australian, whether there's a better date, whether Coles should sell Australia flag crap that's made in China etc, I wasn't expecting to see this!
The day was genuinely inclusive of the full range of Australian history, from the first inhabitants through to the most recent migrants and all that they've contributed.
It really struck me that despite politicians, news outlets and other various group using the day for political purposes, Aussies of all backgrounds are mostly just getting on with life and are way more unified than some would have you believe.
To top it off, I grabbed some chicken biryani and knafeh on the way home. For mine, it's way better than damper and a snag.
My big takeaway from the whole day is while some things in Australia have changed a lot since that first Australia Day event I went to, don't listen to the media, sooks and politicians, we're still doing ok!
upthetigers
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Music and sport brings people together, so should Australia Day.
