Politics Super Thread - keep it all in here

[TrueTiger]

I see the usual outpouring from the usual people now that we are readying ourselves to celebrate Australia Day,invasion day rallies,taking a knee at the BBL as a show against racism and Anthony Mundine having his usual rant against the PM ...
I was born here in Australia and Iam proud of our country,especially how multicultural we are...I can completely understand that our history is marred with many incidents that we consider appalling,however we have all come together on this historic day to unite as one over many ,many years since our founding...
History is just that,history,why in the past decade or so have we had to face people with an agenda that we owe something to people that we ourselves werent involved in..
As far as Im concerned we have gone to many lengths to right many wrongs but it still doesnt satisfy the few who want to shame us into submission,I will always celebrate Australia Day as I have known it since birth,I have friends around sometimes to have a feed and drink with,some are white,black and asian...on that note I wont take a knee or support the changes some want re the anthem or anything else that people call racist...I for one have been proud to sing Advance Australia Fair as it was written and performed originally....I wont give the minority any support as Im not a racist person so their arguements go against my ethics...
Everybody have a safe and happy Australia Day and God Bless all...

You want to perform Advance Australia Fair with it's original lyrics? You might want to research that.

I would rather celebrate our national day on a day that all Australians can join in and celebrate. Not a day a group sees as the beginning of a loss of their culture.

I dont want to research it ...I liked it how it was prior to this last change...I will celebrate the day as I see fit,enjoying friends and families company ...I dont need to get into a verbal stoush about who did what when and why...If you dig up the past there will always be something there that others want to pry open and wont let things heal...At my age I dont need to try and satisfy someone elses agendas,I love Australia and our way of life,to bad others cant find a way to do the same without constantly wanting to antagonise the rest of us...

 

[happy_tiger]

I see the usual outpouring from the usual people now that we are readying ourselves to celebrate Australia Day,invasion day rallies,taking a knee at the BBL as a show against racism and Anthony Mundine having his usual rant against the PM ...
I was born here in Australia and Iam proud of our country,especially how multicultural we are...I can completely understand that our history is marred with many incidents that we consider appalling,however we have all come together on this historic day to unite as one over many ,many years since our founding...
History is just that,history,why in the past decade or so have we had to face people with an agenda that we owe something to people that we ourselves werent involved in..
As far as Im concerned we have gone to many lengths to right many wrongs but it still doesnt satisfy the few who want to shame us into submission,I will always celebrate Australia Day as I have known it since birth,I have friends around sometimes to have a feed and drink with,some are white,black and asian...on that note I wont take a knee or support the changes some want re the anthem or anything else that people call racist...I for one have been proud to sing Advance Australia Fair as it was written and performed originally....I wont give the minority any support as Im not a racist person so their arguements go against my ethics...
Everybody have a safe and happy Australia Day and God Bless all...

You want to perform Advance Australia Fair with it's original lyrics? You might want to research that.

I would rather celebrate our national day on a day that all Australians can join in and celebrate. Not a day a group sees as the beginning of a loss of their culture.

Its Australia Day ...play whatever damn music you want to listen to .....we are all Australians .....

A song isn't going to improve the living conditions of any person living in poverty

 

[hugh1954]

Teachers would never as a whole let cameras into a classroom, Principals close their eyes to what is going on and hope it all goes away or doesn't interfere with there life with especially discipline. Some teachers who are being abused and are to frightened to say anything or in the past have said something and been ostracized by the do gooder factions in the school would probably want it, but a way would be found to squash the outcomes and life goes on with results in many many public schools in a steep decline, with cover up actions to keep this atrocity going . 14 years experience here in high schools.

 

[hugh1954]

Now you have me going I am so tired of sporting bodies bringing politics into sports. The Australian Cricket Board has turned me nearly completely of cricket over the past few seasons. The Kneeling and virtue signing has to STOP for me to start being interested again after 60 years of following. If they do not maybe they had better start doing what they preach. The board made up of Aboriginal, Homosexuals' men, lesbian women, Transsexuals' and heterosexuals' men and women. While i am about it shouldn't our cricket teams both men and women have a fair share of these categories to promote inclusiveness. Maybe Big Merv Hughes should have represented australian womens cricket team and why couldn't Cate Mcgregor play for the australian mens first 11. How about we stop making this world a progressively less safe and comical society. If you disagree or BUT I feel better now

 

[cochise]

I see the usual outpouring from the usual people now that we are readying ourselves to celebrate Australia Day,invasion day rallies,taking a knee at the BBL as a show against racism and Anthony Mundine having his usual rant against the PM ...
I was born here in Australia and Iam proud of our country,especially how multicultural we are...I can completely understand that our history is marred with many incidents that we consider appalling,however we have all come together on this historic day to unite as one over many ,many years since our founding...
History is just that,history,why in the past decade or so have we had to face people with an agenda that we owe something to people that we ourselves werent involved in..
As far as Im concerned we have gone to many lengths to right many wrongs but it still doesnt satisfy the few who want to shame us into submission,I will always celebrate Australia Day as I have known it since birth,I have friends around sometimes to have a feed and drink with,some are white,black and asian...on that note I wont take a knee or support the changes some want re the anthem or anything else that people call racist...I for one have been proud to sing Advance Australia Fair as it was written and performed originally....I wont give the minority any support as Im not a racist person so their arguements go against my ethics...
Everybody have a safe and happy Australia Day and God Bless all...

You want to perform Advance Australia Fair with it's original lyrics? You might want to research that.

I would rather celebrate our national day on a day that all Australians can join in and celebrate. Not a day a group sees as the beginning of a loss of their culture.

I dont want to research it ...I liked it how it was prior to this last change...I will celebrate the day as I see fit,enjoying friends and families company ...I dont need to get into a verbal stoush about who did what when and why...If you dig up the past there will always be something there that others want to pry open and wont let things heal...At my age I dont need to try and satisfy someone elses agendas,I love Australia and our way of life,to bad others cant find a way to do the same without constantly wanting to antagonise the rest of us...

How it was prior to the last change is not how it was originally, far from it.
Advance Australia Fair – lyrics (the original 1879 version)

Verse 1

Australia's sons let us rejoice,

For we are young and free;

We've golden soil and wealth for toil,

Our home is girt by sea;

Our land abounds in Nature's gifts

Of beauty rich and rare;

In hist'ry's page, let ev'ry stage

Advance Australia fair.

In joyful strains then let us sing,

Advance Australia fair.

Verse 2

When gallant Cook from Albion sailed,

To trace wide oceans o'er,

True British courage bore him on,

Til he landed on our shore.

Then here he raised Old England's flag,

The standard of the brave;

"With all her faults we love her still"

"Britannia rules the wave."

In joyful strains then let us sing

Advance Australia fair.

Verse 3

While other nations of the globe

Behold us from afar,

We'll rise to high renown and shine

Like our glorious southern star;

From England soil and Fatherland,

Scotia and Erin fair,

Let all combine with heart and hand

To advance Australia fair.

In joyful strains then let us sing

Advance Australia fair.

Verse 4

Should foreign foe e'er sight our coast,

Or dare a foot to land,

We'll rouse to arms like sires of yore,

To guard our native strand;

Britannia then shall surely know,

Though oceans roll between,

Her sons in fair Australia's land

Still keep their courage green.

In joyful strains then let us sing

Advance Australia fair.


I will just say its fine that you celebrate on a day others feel excluded. Personally I don't know why anyone would want to celebrate our nation on a day others don't think is a celebration.

 

[innsaneink]

There is a distinct possibility that Australia will lose Google as a search engine due to Scamo and his crew trying to milk funds from them

Oh God no!

 

[hugh1954]

So lets not celebrate anything because a minority in many areas don't feel its a celebration for them. GIVE ME A BREAK

 

[cochise]

So lets not celebrate anything because a minority in many areas don't feel its a celebration for them. GIVE ME A BREAK

Yeah so lets exclude them from our National Celebration.

 

[hobbo1]

So lets not celebrate anything because a minority in many areas don't feel its a celebration for them. GIVE ME A BREAK

Yeah so lets exclude them from our National Celebration.

No ones excluding them .. they have a choice .

 

[hugh1954]

YES life is a choice, I Choose to care about my loved ones, my work life, my bills, my sports entertainment, if you want to curl up in a corner and bemoan the choice to NOT celebrate THEN you enjoy that and good luck to you

 

[cochise]

So lets not celebrate anything because a minority in many areas don't feel its a celebration for them. GIVE ME A BREAK

Yeah so lets exclude them from our National Celebration.

No ones excluding them .. they have a choice .

The date excludes some indigenous people from celebrating as they don't view it as a day to celebrate. Regardless of that in my opinion we are celebrating the wrong day anyway, we are celebrating our national day on the day the first fleet arrived to set up a penal colony. Why don't we celebrate the day we actually became Australia?

 

[hugh1954]

LIKE talking to a wall I give up have a nice Australian day

 

[Geo]

Mmmmm...Lamb..

 

[cochise]

LIKE talking to a wall I give up have a nice Australian day

Why because I won't change my opinion, that's cool I am happy for you to keep your opinion, I just think it is wrong.

 

[cochise]

Mmmmm...Lamb..

I'd love some lamb chops.

 

[hobbo1]

Mmmmm...Lamb..

Pulled pork

 

[happy_tiger]

Mmmmm...Lamb..

Pulled pork

Pork Belly

 

[cochise]

Mmmmm...Lamb..

Pulled pork

Pork Belly

Now this thread is on a topic we can all agree on.

 

[mike]

Mmmmm...Lamb..

Pulled pork

Pork Belly

Hey, stop talking about me.

 

[Tiger5150]

So lets not celebrate anything because a minority in many areas don't feel its a celebration for them. GIVE ME A BREAK

Yeah so lets exclude them from our National Celebration.

No ones excluding them .. they have a choice .

The date excludes some indigenous people from celebrating as they don't view it as a day to celebrate. Regardless of that in my opinion we are celebrating the wrong day anyway, we are celebrating our national day on the day the first fleet arrived to set up a penal colony. Why don't we celebrate the day we actually became Australia?

Because its New Years Day and we already have a holiday on that day and 50% of the country would be hung over for our national celebration.