CM how did you get the last post in to this day
Made it up did you not
Never heard it played on our national day

Belly said- CM how did you get the last post in to this day
Made it up did you not
Never heard it played on our national day

Answer- Word association- poetry often uses phrases that illicit feeling to emphasize a message.

Australia Day > about British Settlers > about history of Australia > about my ancestors > at the going down of the sun and in the morning we'll remember them > The Last Post.

Belly- You're right though- it isn't played on Australia Day. It's probably an association that only a British Australian would understand. I suppose people without roots are a danger to people with them. Paraphrasing Kurosawa- "People that are like grass and death"

Dear Belly,

For now Australia Day should stay as is.

The time to change it would be when and if we ever
become a Republic.

That would be an appropriate date.

Welcome back Foxy, yes if/when we become a Republic we can look at changing our flag, it has been done before
Changing our national anthem that too has been done before
And changing Australia day, that too has been done before
My point is bending to the will of so few is never a way to run a country,for the present leave it as is

Dear Belly,

Thanks for the Welcome Back. I've been without a computer
for the past weeks - due to scammers putting in a virus.
My own fault though. I allowed them remote access to my
computer. I believed them when they said they were from
Telstra - and were concerned about my computer security.

I certainly missed all of you. Australia Day is a
controversial issue. However, I think that our British
heritage is something that is part and parcel of this
country.

Foxy If you had a virus on your computer it should take less than one hour to fix, unless the virus was injected into the BIOS which is unlikely.
Time to get another person to fix it for you.

What additional advise or programs did he or she recommend so it does not happen again?