So the ultralightweight, self described 'Journalisticalist' (whatever that is) SMH's Jacqueline Maley thinks that Australians are lucky and didn't work for it, huh? So presumably it is fair enough to be giving citizenship away and be thankful that spillover from over-populated countries heads this way.

It is "only dumb luck that we are Australian" and we should be lauding instead the migrants who 'have had to work for it'.

-So easy to see why this Hipster excuse for a 'sketch-writer' journalist appeals to the easily smitten Fox, who is also prone to buffing up migrants and regards Australians as 'Nullarboring' and utterly devoid of culture, before migrants brought their culture with them.

It is not 'Progressive', not PC, and definitely NOT Hip, for there to be any recognition of the obvious, incontrovertible fact that Australians have worked very hard for what they have and in the process lost many souls defending Europe and other countries from dictators.

Shareholders of rags like the SMH are fleeing. Editors who let loose young airhead female reporters with uninformed, trendy opinions in lieu of facts are hastening the flight of readers to other sources on the Web.

Australia Day to me means more tedious online debates over the true meaning of a holiday which until recently meant nothing much to anyone, though it is funny to see the Left-Liberal types embracing patriotism for a day.
If the bourgeois hypocrites and Tumblr Lefties want Australia Day they can have it as far as I'm concerned.

Good Morning Folks,

Australia Day is a time of celebration.

It's a day that belongs to all of us.

It's a day that is celebrated in various ways
throughout the country with Citizenship ceremonies,
Australian of the Year Awards, barbeques, picnics
in parks, re-enactments of Australia Day, throughout
cities and towns. It's a day that can't be reduced
to a simple formula. The reason for that as stated
earlier is because Australians have come from a
range of different origins going back to
Indigenous Australians. That's what makes us,
us.

Have a Good Day.

otb,

Now really?

You've had your head stuck in the toilet again
have you?

Sad really!

With the greatest of regret, I no longer celebrate Australia Day. This once great country has been torn asunder by the endemic corruption to be found at all strata of the Nation's administration.

This scourge and stench of corruption, has pervaded throughout most of industry, the finance sector, legal profession, law and order and even throughtout our health services administration.

And to cap it off, each January 26th, we see an ever increasing parade of eager people getting a 'gong', in most instances for merely just doing their job. While a few others, already earning squillions on the sporting fields are awarded an 'Order' for something totally valueless?

Instead of the many faceless, dedicated, honourable self-sacrificing folk, who daily go about quietly, doing good works through volunteering for the benefit of others!

It's a great day for the House of Windsor and Tony Windsor is the man for New England .
" An amended Commission, dated 25 April 1787, designated George III's territory of New South Wales as including 'all the islands adjacent in the Pacific Ocean' and running westward to the 135th meridian," that is, about mid-way through the continent 400km east of Ayers Rock.
Out thoughts and prayers are with the happy couple , Sir Philip and his wife and may they have a cold beer with their Advancing Australian years