Should We Ban Australia Day As Well?

[icyfroth]

We are after all celebrating the landing of the First Fleet on January 26th 1988...

Aldi pulls 'racist' T-shirts after online outrage

Discount supermarket chain Aldi has pulled an Australia Day T-shirt and singlet from its stores amid claims on social media that designs featured on the garments were racist.

Complaints that the range of promotional T-shirts with 'AUSTRALIA EST 1788' logos were racist led to people targeting @ALDIAustralia on Twitter and calling for them to be withdrawn.

The T-shirts and singlets were scheduled to go on sale on this week in the lead up to January 26.

Twitter users slammed the design as racist and culturally insensitive to indigenous Australians, who inhabited the continent for thousands of years before Europeans arrived.

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Perhaps we should abandon the celebration altogether.

[cherry*135]

Australia was recognized as Australia before the First Fleet landed [1788]

So the slogan Australia est in 1788 is inaccurate?

The earliest recorded use of the word Australia in English was in 1625 in "A note of Australia del Espíritu Santo, written by Sir Richard Hakluyt", published by Samuel Purchas in Hakluytus Posthumus

[*crikey*mate*]

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@am*3 wrote:

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@crikey*mate wrote:

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@donnashuggy wrote:

Yes but never in a supermarket, it is an invasion

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I'm not challenging what you believe, but why do you consider it an invasion in a supermarket and not another kind of store?

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That is kinda funny isn't it? I have images of armed troops hiding in the storeroom out the back and rushing in and surrounding a shopper who has been asked to open their bag for inspection.

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LOL

I get where she is coming from, my mother is the same with regards to her underwear drawer, she finds it creepy or distasteful that people might see her undies. It even embarrasses her carrying new underwear around the store to purchase, she will hide it in something else so no one sees it LOL. She was the same with sanitary products when I was growing up. They were bought at the chemist where they were concealed in a paper bag, not tossed in with your groceries... And the day she first saw condoms in supermarkets - still cracks me up.

I however have nice underwear, I don't care who sees my underwear, unless I am physically wearing it, then I am a little more selective LOL.

But I have never known her to have issues about a bag check, so I am just curious. My mum obviosly doesn't keep her undies in her handbag though, just stuff she knows people might see.

[cherry*135]

In 1824, the Admiralty agreed that the continent should be known officially as Australia.[41]

[*crikey*mate*]

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@am*3 wrote:

Australia was recognized as Australia before the First Fleet landed [1788]

So the slogan Australia est in 1788 is inaccurate?

The earliest recorded use of the word Australia in English was in 1625 in "A note of Australia del Espíritu Santo, written by Sir Richard Hakluyt", published by Samuel Purchas in Hakluytus Posthumus

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nah, it can't be established until we get the flag in it. (if you knew your european history you would understand why that is LOL)

If different people got here first, then it would have been called whatever their name for this land was. We couldn't lay claim to it or call it "ours" until we got here.

[cherry*135]

If wiki says its true it must be.

My ancestors were some of  the first French settlers in NZ. The British arrived (Banks Peninusla, Sth Is) 6 days before the French and put their flag up.

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@am*3 wrote:

In 1824, the Admiralty agreed that the continent should be known officially as Australia.[41]

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seriously am?

your kids would have studied this in Property Law. or whatever their introductory overview legal course was called, actually, apart from Torts and Negligence, I can't think of a subject that it wasn't at least referred to. ask them, ok?

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@am*3 wrote:

If wiki says its true it must be.

My ancestors were some of  the first French settlers in NZ. The British arrived (Banks Peninusla, Sth Is) 6 days before the French and put their flag up.

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those pesky British, eh?

ironic really that we then had to encourage immigration from the British later on eh? At first they wouldn't stay away from the place, then we had to encourage em to come.

[cherry*135]

wiki again. 

One is in Spain the other in Sydney.

[freakiness]

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@crikey*mate wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:

Australia was recognized as Australia before the First Fleet landed [1788]

So the slogan Australia est in 1788 is inaccurate?

The earliest recorded use of the word Australia in English was in 1625 in "A note of Australia del Espíritu Santo, written by Sir Richard Hakluyt", published by Samuel Purchas in Hakluytus Posthumus

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nah, it can't be established until we get the flag in it. (if you knew your european history you would understand why that is LOL)

If different people got here first, then it would have been called whatever their name for this land was. We couldn't lay claim to it or call it "ours" until we got here.

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The continent was known as Terra Australis long before the English laid claim to it. When they arrived the new colony was New South Wales.

[*crikey*mate*]

*sigh*