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Happy Australia? Invasion? Survival? day all :)

lobs211 — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:04:44 GMT

I always fail at trying to talk about Indigenous stuff cos it always turns nasty - still not sure why that is...............

Anyway my little family making plans to celebrate Survival Day - yeah yeah SURVIVAL DAY - we celebrate we survied & are here but more importantly culture has survived, besides best efforts to kill it and us off

Now before the usual lot carry on and all the same old "get over it" blah blah blah - I wonder if you would consider something? Just think about this for a minute then on u go with ur day 🙂

Just imagine that when the japanese were bombing Aust, just imagine if they took over Aust, say Feb 9th 1942. Just imagine that for a minute. Japanese ppl all moved into your houses, you could ONLY speak japanese etc ect, not even gonna talk about killing babies, taking women, stealing children - just imagine they took over. And you are NOT happy about it 😞

Would you celebrate Feb 9th? They tell you its the day the country was made great, the best day, the day you will celebrate EVERY year? Would you do it??

Hmmmm?

We do celebrate it, I choose not to call it Invasion Day, I choose to call it Survival Day and we will celebrate it.

We are back out bush until the 27th so HAPPY Jan 26th - whatever you wanna call it, stay safe everyone and I can come back in here tonight and when in town - haters gonna hate but it would be cool to have a conversation without the **bleep**??

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*ibis — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:21:54 GMT

Just imagine that when the japanese were bombing Aust, just imagine if they took over Aust, say Feb 9th 1942

why? it didnt happen because we fought back and won.

happy australia day

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boris1gary — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:14:29 GMT

Have a great Survival Day and keep surviving.

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bluecat*dancing — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:16:22 GMT

Happy Survival Day, too you,too, Lobs. Depending on circumstances, we hope to go to a local celebration that Archie Roach is performing at. I think that once the Indigenous People of this is country are recognised in the constitution, that that day should become the new Australia Day.

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lind9650 — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:32:11 GMT

Hello Lobs, so good to see you posting again. At least your friends will know that you are still around and well.

Thank you for the name Survival Day. I will give it to some of my grandchildren.

I wish you and yours a wonderful and happy time in the bush.

Erica ♥

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lobs211 — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:44:04 GMT

OMG Blue Uncle Archie makes me cry all the time LOL -I can just look at him and cry ha ha and when he starts "They took the children away" its all ova for me! have a GREAT day!

Oh Lind, that makes me so happy if ur grandies are told something positive instead of all the negative stuff - thankyou so much x

Ibis - we KNOW it didnt happen, I asked if you could imagine, quite clearly you cant, sometimes arrogance doesnt quite come off.

Cheers Boris (whoeva u are LOL)

Waitin on my cousin to get so we can go - already 2 hours late >.<

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bluecat*dancing — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:48:04 GMT

Some people run on their own time, Lobs. I have friends who are always one hour late so that is referred to as 6pm *****'s time which means they will arrive at 7pm. LOL.

Hopefully you won't have to wait too much longer.

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the_great_she_elephant — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:52:01 GMT

Happy Survival Day, Lobs.

I'm so glad you personally are one of the survivors - because othrwise i wouldn't have a very special friend.

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purple_haize — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:55:08 GMT

Happy Survival Day, Lobs......

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freshwater-2 — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:55:30 GMT

Onya, Lobs.

One Australia Day I flew the aboriginal flag at my home, just as a reminder.

Because it was a surf frontage, everyone on the beach saw it all day.

It did make some people think. No adverese comments. Lots of smils and waving. So there are good people out there.

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izabsmiling — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 02:14:01 GMT

Hi Lobs,

I myself feel angry enough when I hear the leader of my Country talk about 'the First Australians...being those who arrived on ships and declared this land uninhabited (broke their own Laws of that time)..... even now some neglect to consider the real owners/ first people of Australia as what they are and that they 'were' here at that time.Those sorts of comments and attitudes aren't limited to him though .Amazingly some don't even seem to get what is wrong about claims like that .

Survival day is apt imo

and I still see it being 'Exclusion day' .

It's time for the 'Ex' at the being of the word Excusion to be what is should ..an 'In'

It's so wrong that needs to be an issue in our Country in 2014

It should go without saying

Enjoy your time in the bush and Happy Survival day

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*ibis — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 02:19:27 GMT

people with white guilt should do themselves and everyone else a favor and go back to europe

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izabsmiling — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 02:21:47 GMT

@*ibis wrote:
people with white guilt should do themselves and everyone else a favor and go back to europe

would you like to rewrite our Country's history

as well as select who you feel should live here ?

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bluecat*dancing — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 02:26:50 GMT

Those who condone the mistreatment of the Aboriginal Peoples, past and present, have no conscience.and are selfish and arrogant.

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the_great_she_elephant — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 02:42:42 GMT

Maybe those who refuse to accept reality would be better off with an ostrich as their ID.

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cherry*135 — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 03:04:08 GMT

Happy Survival Day lobs

lobs wrote:

haters gonna hate but it would be cool to have a conversation without the **bleep**?

(those that want to argue/disrupt go do it somewhere else please)

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nero_bolt — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 08:35:09 GMT

@*ibis wrote:

people with white guilt should do themselves and everyone else a favor and go back to europe

100% agree.

Why are still to blame for what happened 226 years ago?

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silverfaun — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 03:26:36 GMT

lts called the black armband view of history.

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izabsmiling — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 03:31:18 GMT

Nero Wulf, I am an Australian who accepts the history and all of people in my Country

are you are missing out on something when Australians do that ?

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azureline** — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 03:34:28 GMT

Happy 26th of January Lobs and family!