The modern nation of Australia began as a British penal colony when the first fleet arrived in 1788. It's interesting to consider what and why Australia day is celebrated.

I wish they could just move the date two weeks into Feb and call it Drink A Beer in the Park Day. I find both of these sides tacky and predictable. When I got home and was on social media and saw a bunch of white, left leaning people I know changing their profile pics to the Aboriginal flag, writing 'Always was always will be or taking selfies of themselves at the invasion day rallies and basically being all about indigenous affairs for a day. And grown men trying to drape their utes in as many aussie flags while doing laps around town. Not many people are sitting at home reading up on Australian history and having deep thoughts on what it means to be an Australian.Īfter going out for a few hours yesterday I was around middle aged people wearing aussie flag shirts or those 'this is australia we eat meat, drink beer and speak english and if you don't like it fuck off' singlets. For most people it's getting drunk with mates and a BBQ. It was just an excuse to get pissed and hang out and no one really cared with the certain holiday traditions. They'd drop the word 'respect' or 'diggers' here and there and by 8pm they were hammered, broke and spouting nationalist and racist shit.Įaster weekend was a piss up as was boxing day, Xmas eve and a number of other holidays. I use to go out on ANZAC day and it would be all these guys I knew from school at the pub playing 2 up and getting hammered and gambling their pay cheque. It's like that for a lot of public holidays here though. People spout on about how it's a day to pay tribute to the history of our nation but people are into it cause it's a day off to have a massive piss up. I don't really give two shits about Australia day. Why? Cause it's a public holiday and my right on Australia day is to not act like a bogan or a dickhead and watch three kiwi movies about short guys. One year I watched the LOTR trilogy back to back. They will scream at each other over Aboriginals vs James cook. Stereotyping here but the must move is 14-30 white triple j listener and Must Stay is 55+ A current Affair watcher. Then theres a third group which I think is actually the loudest. From the, albeit limited relations it seems more common that Aboriginal people think generally the past sucked, some of the present sucks, can we make shit neat. Then you've got (from what I understand minority) extremist Aboriginal members who say things like invasion day, our land, go home etc. The guys who have 40 flags on their uniform. The caption must be in the meme image, not in the submission title.Sort of bogan strya fuckheads who want to seen to be bogan. No posts where the title is the meme caption or we will delete it. No posting news articles as there are subreddits that have been designed for that and we can’t verify if they are factual or not. We don’t want this to be another place to cause anxiety.

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