Dear Paul,

This is a question of balance.

Firstly - even the Captain Cook Society notes that
he is commemorated by more than 100 memorials,
many in Australia.

It's
hardly a bad thing to suggest that Cook is already
well-honoured and that perhaps spending more than $50
million dollars could be allocated to a more worthy and
needy project.

More importantly, since W.E.H. Stanner's call to end
the "great Australian Silence" in 1968 Australians have
become more aware of the ancient cultures that have
possessed this land at least as far back as the
Pleistocene. Retreating back into a lazy "cult of
forgetfulness" with a government promoted triumphant
Cook narrative narrows a history that has been slowly
broadening for decades.

The anniversary of Cooks voyage in 2020 can be marked.
But without genuine consultation with our First Nations
People to find form and language that offers respect
it will be another exercise in exclusion.
Which I'm sure nobody wants.

The event will be commemorated, and the commemoration will be supported by a majority of Australians proud of their history. Their is no 'should' about it, and what loony-Left vandals do in tinpot New Zealand doesn't come into it either.

the Marxist again showing they can only ever play the politics of ungratefulness for all the benefits they enjoy today as a result of others hard work.

Put your head in to one of those portable lunch sheds we see on every construction site
Ask those sitting in them two things
Tell me what you truly think, not what you think I want to hear
Even try factory lunch rooms
Next question, could be about many things the true left wants
Do you think we should not celebrate Cooks landing/change Australia day to another date?
Be prepared to leave fast
Report on Labors defeat out today, briefs at least
I never needed to see it
Workers not just retirees, refused to vote Labor
PC is a weapon the very few use to enforce unwanted things on us all, no never rewrite history

Dear Belly,

Here's an interesting link that gives us food
for thought:

http://theconversation.com/no-longer-tied-to-britain-australia-is-still-searching-for-its-place-in-the-world-70407

It's worth a read.

Paul,
Thanks for bringing this date to our attention.

I hope and trust the government has the date firmly fixed and calls it "Discovery Day" with appropriate ceremony and celebrations. A new memorial at Botany Bay would also be appropriate to celebrate the event in the career of a great mariner and navigator.

We can be forever thankful for Cook's discovery and claiming of the East coast for Briton. His other discoveries in the Pacific Ocean are truely remarkable. We can also be thankful that Briton was strong enough to hold the entire island after Cook's discovery. So began the country AUSTRALIA.