"Woolworths shares have dropped by 4.47% ($2 billion) since their Australia Day brain fart."

- The elite don't care about small impacts on their profits.
They can afford it, but for mum and dad investors it costs them so much more.
For them, these small impacts on profits are the cost of doing business to create a reality that better suits their collective global business aims.

It's a mega-corporation.
All the large multi-nationals are invested in each other.
They all have a vested interest in each others success.

Most countries celebrate their Independence Days.
Not the days of colonial occupation.

Not everyone who came to this country came of their
own free will. Many were forced as part of the
establishment of the British penal colony, and came
in chains. Others fled from persecution and occupation
and inhumane regimes as refugees. Others were invited to
fill labour shortages and do jobs the locals did not want or
couldn't do.

As for being a "united country?" No. not for everyone.
Not everyone was treated equally and made to feel welcome
And names like - "Wog," "Chink" "Dago" were bandied about..

Some people were sick and tired of being told how grateful
they should be for having to work at several menial jobs, in order
to provide for their families. Sick of being told on buses and
trains to "speak English," when they spoke several languages.
Of taking lower pay in wages - of not having their
qualifications recognized - and being forced to not have their
own culture acknowledged.

Even today - we can see from some of the posts here - that
unification still does not exist - neither does respect for
our diversity.

And that folks is a fact.

So what's there to celebrate?

"Not everyone who came to this country came of their own free will."
- Yes people like my forefathers.

Others fled from persecution and occupation and inhumane regimes as refugees.
- They wouldn't stay and rebuild their own countries choosing to instead run away and gatecrash other peoples countries, (many for the sake of their families futures mind you)

But if they weren't loyal to their own homeland, why would we think they would EVER be loyal to OUR country.

As soon as there's another war and things get too hard, these people would likely up and relocate to greener pastures as they've already proven to have done before.

AC,

People ran from terror, death and persecution.
These same people won't be fleeing anywhere.
Most of them have passed away having given
their own blood, sweat, tears and children, -
towards building this country. Many of their
children have served in the military.

Your sweeping accusations of flight are unfounded when so
much has been contributed by so many. The only ones who
fled this country (from meory) were some of the ten pound
poms - whose expectations were not met when they first arrived
here. They were the ones who went back to where they came
from. Other migrants stayed, worked, and contributed. And
still do.

The people who have done well out of this country;
Those who live in fancy houses and have expensive cars and have share and housing portfolios,
They'd be the first to jump up and down about loss of their wealth due to foreign entanglements.
They'd also be the last people willing to pick up a gun and defend the place, expecting those beneath them, - those with little opportunity for a future, - BECAUSE OF THEM - to do their fighting for them.
They'd be on a plane back to wherever their dual-citizen passports allow them to go the first chance they got.

Finally we all know 'defend the country' means 'getting on a boat and taking a mission-impossible-like one-way-trip to some foreign shore as an invader'
- Nothing to do with 'defense' in the first place, just dying as cannon fodder for the empire of the globalist elite.

'Defending democracy' does not even mean defending the 'one person one vote system'.
All you have to do is look at America and the contempt they have for Trump, who's main electoral base is the downtrodden working class.

'Defending democracy' actually means defending the interests of the elite, leadership and donor class, maintaining their wealth and power and their unfair advantage to transfer more wealth from the poor to their own pockets.

It has nothing at all to do with the choice and interests of the average citizen.

The Australian Museum presents a different picture.

It asks the question as to whether we should celebrate January
26th as Australian day? And it tells us that:

1) January 26th does NOT celebrate the establishment of
Australia as a country. But it marks the foundation of
the British colony of New South Wales.

2) We're told that - most nations celebrate their national
day on the date of independence from their colonial power,
not the day of colonisation.

3) The date of January 26th has negative associations for
Australia's both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
It marks the start of dispossession and discrimination of
Indigenous Australians and the arrival of convicts in chains.

4) It is suggested that a different date would be a significant
symbolic act towards Reconciliation.

It becomes clear that as a nation we must keep working to change
the date and the meaning of Australia Day.