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As an 18 yo in 1988 the Bicentennial was a great festival, and there were constant adds on TV promoting it.
The celebration wasn’t over the top, and I certainly can’t remember any protests or problems.
I agree, it doesn’t celebrate colonialism at all.
No need to change the date, when the public holiday itself is at a great time of the year too.
As I’ve suggested in another thread, we can have a separate Reconciliation Day as a national public holiday as well.
As an 18 yo in 1988 the Bicentennial was a great festival, and there were constant adds on TV promoting it.
The celebration wasn’t over the top, and I certainly can’t remember any protests or problems.
Come now.
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On 26 January 1988, more than 40,000 people, including Aborigines from across the country and non-Indigenous supporters, staged what was the largest march in Sydney since the Vietnam moratorium. There were around a dozen buses of Victorian Aborigines among those congregated. The protesters marched through Sydney chanting for land rights. The march ended at Hyde Park where several prominent Aboriginal leaders and activists spoke, among them activist Gary Foley; 'Let's hope Bob Hawke and his Government gets this message loud and clear from all these people here today. It's so magnificent to see black and white Australians together in harmony.This is what Australia could and should be like.'
As an 18 yo in 1988 the Bicentennial was a great festival, and there were constant adds on TV promoting it.
The celebration wasn’t over the top, and I certainly can’t remember any protests or problems.
I agree, it doesn’t celebrate colonialism at all.
No need to change the date, when the public holiday itself is at a great time of the year too.
As I’ve suggested in another thread, we can have a separate Reconciliation Day as a national public holiday as well.
I was at like my first week of the first year at boarding school. The "grots" as we were known did not have a Television.
Television been a privilege you obtained when you got older.
So i would have spent the whole day outside running around playing rugby or something, blissfully unaware of what was occruing in the outside world.
Now I think about it, I dont recall ever celebrtating Australia day outside the 3 I spent in the UK, my wife became an Australian Citizen on Australia Day 2023, so is suppose you could say thats a bit of a celebration.
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That's right. Equal human rights for all. This 'us and them' attitude that has taken priority in this country has to stop!
But the us and them attitude doesn't begin and stop at race surely? I think race transcends issues around equality and human rights but may include features of it.
I don’t remember any of this.
And I am all for Indigenous rights.
This is the issue I think. Firstly, indigenous opposition to Australia Day is long lived and deep rooted; it isn't a symptom of contemporary politics. Following on from that, while Australia Day in 2024 doesn't really have anything to do with colonisation it did historically and it still does for many (most) indigenous Australians.
I'm indifferent to it because I don't really think Australia Day is all that important, but I think it's hard to see it being considered the national day in the way Anzac Day is because of the historical context of it which is impossible to shake.
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