Happy Australia? Invasion? Survival? day all :)

[lobs211]

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**??

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@**meep** wrote:

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@nevynreally wrote:

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@lurker17260 wrote:
Mayflower Day?

Mayflower Day celebrates the date the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England to America. On September 16, 1620, 102 men, women, and children set sail from Plymouth, England. Their destination was the New World, where they could have religious freedom, and continue using their native language, culture, and customs.

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Yeah, and helped the pathway to the destruction of the Indigenous peoples there. Not a good example.

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My point was, what do we do with the 26th of Jan?

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I guess we could celebrate it  as "First Fleet Day." Mr eEephant has ancestors who were First Fleeters.

Maybe before too long we'll have a Republic Day that we could all celebrate asour National DDay.

The Americans have Thanksgiving, but their National Day is Independance Day, - the day they threw off the shackles of colonialism.

New Zealand has Waitangi Day, which celebrates the treaty between Europeans and Maori. It may have been an enforced treaty and, ultimately, not alwyas observed as it should have been, but at least it recognises both nations.

[imastawka]

 Just throwing it into the mix -

Federation was 1901 maybe it could be 19th January.

Then it's easy for future generations to remember history.

The day we became a Nation

I have no idea whether the indigenous people would have

any objection to that date

[just_me_karen]

Or maybe they could fix the constitution on Jan 26, to make the date more suitable.

[joz*garage]

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@lobs211 wrote:

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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cant imagine how you feel

26th of jan is just another day to me

i dont bother to celebrate my birthday, even

i'd rather imagine being on a tropical island, wetting a line

[poison_ivys_pen]

Happy Survival day Lobs 🙂 hope it's a ripper day for you and the family.

[nevynreally]

Or, just maybe, for once, there can be a discussion about the topic without previous issues/death matches/disagreements. Leave your agenda at the login?

[cherry*135]

New Zealand has Waitangi Day, which celebrates the treaty between Europeans and Maori. It may have been an enforced treaty and, ultimately, not always observed as it should have been, but at least it recognises both nations.

Very controversial.. Waitangi Day (being based on the Treaty of Waitangi). The ongoing protests (since 1971) have meant that politicians have often avoided attending Waitangi Day at Waitangi.

[pixie-six]

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