Australia Day is a day to unite, reflect and respect our history and acknowledge we are stronger as a country without dividing ourselves on skin colour or ancestry. We have one flag, we are One Nation, we are one community.
Australia Day is a day to unite, reflect and respect our history and acknowledge we are stronger as a country without dividing ourselves on skin colour or ancestry. We have one flag, we are One Nation, we are one community.
I would like to see Australia Day to stay on the Day it should be…what is the use of having public holidays when they keep changing the dates/days. I feel if Public Holidays are on weeks so be it, none of this oh well we had better make the Monday a Public Holiday etc etc. As a person with a Disability and who do not have support at weekends or Public Holidays means i go without support for more days, plus my son who has a disability has to pay, weekend rates and if the public Holiday is on a weekend, they give the Monday off off because the PH fell on a weekend. Eg. Like Christmas. My son and i have to wait days for support/personal care etc. It should be like it use to be…reiterate…if public holidays is at a weekend so be it, another day should not be given due to that.Not all “ PWD “ get funding to cover extra days that cost a fortune…so we miss out.
Jennifer. I agree 100% .. too bad if a holiday falls on a weekend. Stop making all these extra days for nothing. If people want to use a day out of their holidays, fine. But no more granted paid days for hols. It’s wrong in so many ways.. just like you.. so good you put this out. Another letter to the gov.
Australia Day should not be changed. This is all becoming very dangerous for our country. A faction of Aboriginal society s wanting far more than a voice to Parliament, they want sovereignty putting themselves above all other Australians. Why is there a push to dirty the history of Australia by demonising colonization? The aboriginals may have been here first but this is the same through all world countries history and yet nobody is demonising their history. Aboriginals did very little with Australia in their time prior to colonization – they were nomadic tribes who survived by hunting and fishing using primative tools. Every Aboriginal today benefits by colonization and given choice today would not want to go back to pre colonization days and yet activists Romanticise aboriginal life and demonise colonization. Opportunity for a good life has been given to all Australians by the British colonising Australia and it is very lucky that the earlier Dutch and French explorers did not try to colonize it as the aboriginals would have been treated very badly under their rule. We should be proud of how far we have come in the past 200+ years, not destroy it. I am so tired of all this destructive talk.
I have served this Country and the flag as have my father and my brother. I feel the Country is now on a woke downward spiral and the kids are not going to remember their Grandads and Great grandads time protecting this Country as I see that some of the RSL clubs are taking RSL out of their name. Australia day to me is not invasion day as I did not invade this Country but helped protect it and served with a number of Aboriginal lads and we got on terrifically. Leave Australia day alone and cut out all this woke rubbish.