Says the left wing Social Marxist nutcase!

Lol.

There has been confrontation and physical conflict, a war, over the future of this continent, which aborigines lost. Nobody was invited, they just came, without the agreement of aborigines over any aspect of their coming, and built a modern nation with their own hands (though now I'm hearing aborigines were enslaved into this nation-building). The new-comers reasonably want to celebrate their achievement, and to do so on the anniversary of their first coming. It is unsurprising that they want to defend the date of that celebration, want it to be a holiday, and call it Australia Day. Even now, with the existence of international laws defending the rights of nations, you only own that which you have the power to defend. Australia belonged to its first inhabitants, and belongs now to its current inhabitants, only for as long as it could/can be defended. Ask the Tibetans and Crimeans. For me, part of the 26th of January holiday every year is facing the fact that that we dispossessed aborigines, in a way that any other date will make less poignant. We have land-rights legislation to repeal this, and we are doing what we can to bring aborigines along with the nation, with all its warts. Having said all this, I'll not nail myself to a mast over the date, and perhaps would support Steely's 22nd November proposal

SteeleRedux, You are an uncivilised little man. Answer these Questions: What day do you suggest we keep as Australia Day? WHY? All the massacres you speak of did not happen on 26th of January at the landing of Governor Philip. If it was not the British landing then it would have been the Spanish a few days later. The aboriginals would have suffered the same fate under the Spanish. Governor Philip was told to accommodate the native people and befriend them. The massacres you raise have nothing to do with Australia Day as for the purpose for which it is represented today. WE ARE NOT COMMERATING THE DEATH OF INDIGINOUS PEOPLE 200 YEARS AGO, that is your story. We are celebrating who we as a Nation of Citizens today.

SteeleRedux,
Your claim some identify,"the blacks of Australia were the lowest race of savages known to exist, the connecting link between man and the brute creation". Is the height of your offensiveness.

I stated,"The claim that British settlement brought hardship to aboriginal people is totally irrelevant in todays society. They forget the stone age hardship they put up with for thousands of years before modern Australia offered them new opportunities". There is a difference between hardship as I stated, and your claim of savages, and brute creation. You are intending to offend. I have worked with aboriginals and changing a date is irrelevant to their needs. Dates mean nothing compared to getting a feed, which many struggle with in remote communities even today.

Oh Josephus...you are the uncivilised little man...And aren't you prone to fibbing as I caught you out doing on another thread?

Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone...lmao

Let me answer the questions for you...

The day we should celebrate it...You should be arguing any day that suits the aborigines in our community...Do unto others!

I mean you don't give a damn that we celebrate Jesus' birthday on the wrong day in the wrong month and for the wrong year, and he is the one you supposedly worship so why would the 26th of January be a problem for you. You celebrate your saviour's birthdate on the dates of heathen Gods and don't care...lmao

Josephus you are very conveniently trying to re-write history and are wrong again. So the Spanish were equally as bad as the Spanish or maybe the Spanish were worse... Why do you condone of theft, rape, murder and other atrocities so easily? Is it another flaw in your dubious character?

Someone on one thread said the Spanish would have been worse... Excellent now we are comparing what is better from the worst as our yardstick!

But you are right for once on one thing...Most of us at least aren't commemorating the deaths of aborigines...BUT you are conveniently and intentionally turning a blind eye to the true history of what actually happened...

The aborigines are right to object to the 26th as I do...and as all reasonable, thinking intelligent people do.

As usual you are on the wrong side of history and the wrong end of the facts and reasonableness.

Religion hasn't done you much good now has it!

Jesus must be so proud of people like you...NOT!

Change the date and unite our nation into a stronger, fairer, loving, respectful one... I suspect Jesus would have approved of that...lmao