So how many in the demo?

50?

Well, we've always had a few fruit loops at the edges protesting all manner of things, one of which Mr Putin and starlinist, is not running this country.

The fact that the greens were there doesn't suprise! They belong at the fringe agitating for less border security and so on. Like an intensely autocratic tail that wags the dog. At no time do these treehuggers feel the need to persuade with reason and logic?

Herr Hitler was reportedly, a vegan treehugger, so they would be in good company! As always at this fringe are folk who've decided they know best and our views on any subject just don't matter. None of this mattered very much to our indigenous sisters and brothers, until very recently!

Historical facts cannot be altered. I like the way you stood up to those pig ignorant poms. Who it would seem, think they are so superior/don't know their own history. And needed to be reminded it was a british fleet that anchored in Botany bay.

Captain Cook was an Englishman as were most of his crew! Yes let's ask for reparation on behalf of our dispossessed indigenous sisters and brothers from the British crown and see how well that's received. If there's a case to answer it's theirs.

I can't see how anyone forcibly transported and abandoned here have a case to answer any more than any other castaway! Nor have their offspring! Around 60,000 of who, lay moldering in graves having made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms. Freedoms which include our indigenous sisters and brothers!

But let's move the date anyway, so anyone waving an Australian flag, even a couple of postage stamp sized ones, won't offend folk offended by the national flag, but not the Hammer and sickle? How curious?
Alan B.

Maoris have nothing to do with Australia Day or Australia, is the answer to your query. The same goes for the unionists, who want only more money and a workers' paradise. The Greens? They don't know what they want, but they seem to be in cahoots with the tear-the-joint-down- feminist ratbags.

And you wanted “to hear what everyone had to say”. Were not the flags, placards and thuggish behaviour enough for you to get their “sincerely held” beliefs.

As for your 'conversations'. It sounds a bit suss that little old you was singled out for harassment by the cops and a couple of Poms who should have been minding their own business,

I vote for the Chinese flag to replace the Australian flag.

Let's have some good old fashioned honesty!

yep the Maori's, some of whom boast of eating the previous inhabitants of NZ joining in with activist. A lot of Government funded jobs supplying services to the Indigeneous communities now have Maori's employed with no qualified or willing Australian Indigeneous. Of course they want to ensure the gravy train continues and expands.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,some one once said, so far its been proved pretty right.
1994 is when this latest load of crap was foisted on us preceding that it was just a day off for most
I started work in 1967 even at school it meant not much at all Keating started the move towards this Flag waving stupidity & the little war criminal Howard went overboard on it
I have little interest in what the foundation of NSW & Sydney which are still as corrupt as they always were,why celebrate it Just another step down the American road which ends up with Trump or Molan,I dont want anything to do with that at all

Interesting article. I particularly agree with the way the author dealt with the hypocritical question from the British couple.

The dispossession and genocide in Australia and elsewhere were the result of decisions made in the UK. The same atrocities were committed in Asia and Africa by the British. I could ask another hundred questions about the British rule in India.

"Inglorious Empire". By S Tharoor.

yeah one hundred questions could be asked but one question about what Australia would be like if the British did not bring civilisation would bring forth so many inconvient truths for the loathers.

It`s a crazy world, and country, in which we try to survive.

Lazy cuckolded useless Millenials; mind control victims raised by useless ill informed and ignorant liberal parents who send their kids out into the world like lambs to the slaughter - to be foolish zombie muppets of the elite.
Socialism and Communism ideals are being incorporated into all levels of teaching now, I have a friend doing Business diploma's and all the Human Resource and Complaints resolution are Marxism, they don't even hide it, they quote him.
This whole communist bs is corporatised into our society, not only preying upon the useless millenials who cannot take care of themselves, but created the system that allowed Millenials to be dumbed down in the first place.
This country deserves where its headed because its full of idiots.
Consenting and supportive idiots.
Victims or supporters of the elitist communist conspiracy.
Unfortunately those who know better will get dragged into it by the moronic idiots as well.

This country is really on the nose.
- Like a bag of rotten prawns.

My dear deluded runner, there was very little civilised behaviour of the British toward the aboriginal people especially in Tasmania and the eastern states. Why don't you stop being one of those shallow Australians who whinge so much about things of which they have very little understanding and instead go learn yourself some history?

Dear AC,

God man why are you feeling so triggered at the moment? This country was built on the notion of a fair go which is at its heart a socialist ideal. A strong union movement, a socialised medical system, reasonably progressive taxation system, early adopters of the ambitions of suffragettes all points to a country which held its egalitarianism in high regard. Why are you trying to piss all over that legacy?

The wonder is, how could Marxism prevail in the West, against its violent history in the East.

Marxism is responsible for millions of deaths in Russia and China.

We should be at war with this toxic ideology!

SteeleRedux

AC talks of Marxism the toxic ideology attached to communism, which is autocratic not Democratic.
You appear to be addressing " egalitarianism " which is a true form of equality, and is Democratic, not ideologically grounded as is the evil seeping mess we are inheriting, from God knows where!

Dear diver dan,

Oh come on mate, AC said this; “Socialism and Communism ideals are being incorporated into all levels of teaching now” and you come along and assert “AC talks of Marxism the toxic ideology attached to communism”.

No. We can all read. He spoke of both.

The definition of egalitarianism; “The doctrine that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.”

So what on earth do you make of this country where the fraction of students going to private schools is now over a third, where our public waiting lists in our hospitals are blowing out but private hospitals are flourishing, where corporations are now wielding more power over our governments than ever before, where the attacks on our unions remains unabated?

Is this really a sign of us heading more toward a socialist/communist future as AC carries on about? Hardly. You both are pissing in the wind.

SteeleRedux

You are confused.

Social policies of a Democratic Government, does not a Communist State make.

Whereas, Marxist ideology does make a state of anarchy achievable, through autocratic devolution of Democratic institutions.

You scoff at people calling a spade a spade.

Marxist revolutionaries are again raising their ugly heads in universities, with trickle down effects on a society with little knowledge of historic precedence!

Hey SteeleRedux,
I believe in giving people a fair go, but it's a joke these days.
Only ones a fair go are foreigners, if you're a white Australian it's open slather for persecution.

'Hassled out by the cops on Australia Day for displaying the Aussie flag'?

Scumbag leftists have already engineered the deindustrialisation of Australia with their 'coal is bad' and 'global warming' crap.
Imposed Marxist ideals and brainwashed the youth.

The unions, since when have they given a crap about workers in the last 20 yrs - over and above taking workers contributions and giving it directly to communist inclined political parties?
Couldn't even keep penalty rates.

PC and liberal progressive means the 'fair go' ideals of this country don't apply to real Aussies, they ONLY apply if you're an Aussie from Pakistan, or Sudan or somewhere else.

maybe if you're a white person that hates whites you get a pass.
It's all screwed up.

Reasonably progressive tax system...
Taking a single man with no kids earnings and give it to families, single mum's and the unemployed?
Progressive/theft?

Egalitarianism.
Prioritise equality for all people?
What bs. P
rioritising Socialism more to the point.
And what equality?
Its equality of opportunity not equality of outcome anyway.
We get to make our own choices but we have to live with them.
And you can't make something equal which never was.

This is a globalist socialist agenda and social engineering taking advantage of spoilt entitled millennial's who think they know everything and want everything at someone else's expense.
They don't teach personal responsibility that's for sure.

-Public Schools used to be a decent education 30yrs ago.
[cont.]
Now its like a zoo, too much culture clash, gay sexual indoctrination of kids; half of them on medication for some mental disorder; special school kids now mixed in with normal kids...

Public waiting lists in our hospitals -
What do you think happens when you let foreigners migrate here and get straight on Centrelink with 8 or 10 kids?
All of it just seems like 'Cloward and Piven'.
A race to the bottom.

My friend told me they are teaching Marxism, and that you have to go along with it to pass the subject.
I'll try to get more details and get back to you.