Meredith
My comments were made purely to keep squabbling off this particular thread.
To me it shows a sign of utter disrespect to argue on a thread about Australia day.

David I thank you for respecting my request- if that is what you did- not sure. Anyway the thread was rejected. I called it citizen’s watch.
Considering the thread to a large part has been destroyed already and especially spirit or lack of the way it was opened I guess it doesn’t matter.

I share your concerns and anger at some people wanting to destroy our country.

Antonios Symeonakis

Has stated many times on OLO they will vote us out and take over. All his comments have been anti Australia.

He Wrote = I do not think most Australians are racist.
Then he wrote something similar to this=

I write bellow some of the Concerns and recommendations of Human Rights Commission, UN, about Australia.
COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION
OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
Sixty-sixth session
21 February-11 March 2005
CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES
PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 9 OF THE CONVENTION
AUSTRALIA

= entrenched guarantee against racial discrimination that would override the law of the Commonwealth (Convention, art. 2).

** Pls Note override the law !**

If anybody cares to look he raised the issue of the funds from ASTIC being frozen.
Yes- because it was suspected that some of these funds were being sifted off to Muslim organisations opposed to our laws. Not to mention these funds were meant to be helping the aboriginal people and made up by our tax payers.
In one post I recall reading ASymeonakis, angry comment” That money was supposed to go to us!.
It was rumoured a group of Muslim People were working to open their own political party in Melbourne. It was also rumoured that these were the funds to be used.
He has refused to explain what he meant by those funds were supposed to go to us. Care to answer now ASymeonakis?

BTW It was My pleasure:):)

Our Flag

Author: Unknown

Our Flag wears the stars that blaze at night,
In our Southern skies of blue,
And a little old flag in the corner,
That’s part of our heritage too.

It’s for the English, the Scots and the Irish,
Who were sent to the ends of the earth,
The rogues and schemers, the doers and dreamers,
Who gave modern Australia its birth.

And you, who are shouting to change it,
You don’t seem to understand,
It’s the flag of our laws and our language,
Not the flag of a faraway land.

Though there are plenty of people who'll tell you,
How when Europe was plunged into night,
That little old flag in the corner,
Was their symbol of freedom and light.

It doesn’t mean we owe allegiance,
To a forgotten imperial dream,
We’ve the stars to show where we’re going,
And the old flag to show where we’ve been.

It’s only an old piece of bunting,
It’s only an old piece of rag,
But there are thousands who’ve died for its honour,
And shed of their blood for OUR FLAG

Foxy

I'm sorry for referring to you specifically when I mentioned the flag before. You must have wondered why I did that when you hadn't even mentioned the flag yourself, but as usual you were too polite to draw attention to my mistake!

I've just realised, now that she's posted it a second time, that it was PALEIF who posted the flag poem, not you. It was next to your post and looked like one of your posts which I guess is how I made the mistake, though certainly no excuse for it. My sincere apologies.

PALEIF

I understand your attachment to our current flag and the fact you've reminded us twice of now that thousands have died in its honour. It is possible for a new flag to include aspects of the old so that those who died serving their country continue to be honoured. No flag is ever worth dying for, but certainly not one that ties us so rigidly to an imperialist past and one whose symbolism fails to include all of us.

By the way, we got the message the first time, or are you just getting forgetful?

Bronwyn, Ludwig agree with you entirely, as a 6th gen white Australian myself I see a need for a flag that represents ALL Australians not just white Brits. And, as I have pointed out in past threads, Canada has a flag that projects "canada".

However this thread is not about the flag.

What does Australia Day mean to me? It would mean a lot to me if it was celebrated on another day - a selection that included everyone like the future Republican Day as Mac suggested, would be more in the spirit of inclusiveness.

Australia is an ancient land, with an original culture that goes back millenia and a multiplicity of cultures in recent history - not just British (Afghan camel drivers, Chinese gold diggers) and lest we forget Aboriginals who fought side by side whites in all our wars AND prior to getting the vote in the 60's.

January 26th is not fitting if we are to take pride in and call ourselves a nation.

Dear People Against Live Exports & Intensive Farming,
You wrote " Antonios Symeonakis Has stated many times on OLO they will vote us out and take over. All his comments have been anti Australia.
Only few simple questions.
1. What do you mean with the words "us" and "they"?
2.My coments are not anti Australia, BUT AGAINST THE RACISTS.

Col Rouge you wrote
1. "Actually the Queen is not a "foreigner", I did not know that the
British Queen lived in Australia and she passed the exams for Australian citizenship!
2."Greece is one of the poorest nations in Europe" you have right. Greece did not steal the wealth of other countries, as did all colonial countries, and did not benefit from the slavery. They was unter othoman ocupation.
3."proudly recognize their British heritage" I understand it, and I do the same thing for my Greek heritage" but it is a huge distance between the heritage and the queen of England to be Queen of Australia. WE ARE NOT ANY MORE BRITISH COLONY OR WE ARE?
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

BOAZ_David wrote
"modern Australia's greatest ENEMY is pathetic migrant ethnics" Realy? You love the migrants, even more than the One Nation!
All your Christian deep love have expressed to the "pathetic migrant ethnics"
YOU DRIVE THE WAY TO THE RACE AND RELIGIOUS UNTERSTANDING AND COOPERATION BETWEEN AUSTRALIANS! Haha!!
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide