Tag: Australia Day
On Invasion Day, I heard Australia screaming
Posted by John, February 6th, 2018 - under Invasion day.
Tags: Australia Day
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Calls for Tarneen Onus-Williams to resign from the Koori Youth Council are confected outrage because she dared to speak out against oppression, I write in Independent Australia.
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Australia Day: Changing the date changes nothing
Posted by John, January 23rd, 2018 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, Australia Day, Genocide
Comments: 3
Changing the date will not resolve anything without a Treaty, recognition of sovereignty and paying the rent, I write in Independent Australia.
Australia Day – an image
Posted by John, January 26th, 2017 - under Invasion day.
Tags: Australia Day
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The Canberra Times whitewashes Invasion Day
Posted by John, January 27th, 2016 - under Invasion day.
Tags: Australia Day, Genocide
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Up to 500 people attended the Invasion Day Protest in Garema Place in Canberra on 26 January to highlight the genocide then and now against Aboriginal people. There was not one mention, not one photo of the protest in The Canberra Times.
Any suggestions for alternative days to celebrate Australia Day?
Posted by John, January 26th, 2016 - under Invasion day.
Tags: Australia Day
Comments: 7
I have a few suggestions for an Australia Day which reflects the class divided nature of Australian society. Hit the comments button to make your own class based suggestions.
Invasion Day is the groundhog day of genocide
Posted by John, January 26th, 2016 - under Invasion day.
Tags: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Australia Day, Genocide
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Australia Day perpetuates the country’s ‘founding’ racist myths and is part of the system that enslaves our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander brothers and sisters and, as a consequence, all of us. In the spirit of true reconciliation let’s abolish this celebration of genocide. Let’s instead celebrate the 65000 years of indigenous history and stewardship of this land. Recognise Aboriginal sovereignty, negotiate a treaty and pay the rent. It is time to fight for justice. It is time for justice.
Tony Abbott and Prince Philip: beknighted and benighted
Posted by John, January 26th, 2015 - under Invasion day, Prince Philip, Tony Abbott.
Tags: Australia Day
Comments: 21
I think Abbott knows that politically he is a dead man walking and has decided to release his inner reactionary. That may well explain the enquiry into workplace relations (code for bringing back the highly unpopular vote losing Work Choices) which at least most of the ruling class want. But knighthhoods, and one for Philistine Phil? Seriously? No sensible member of the Australian ruling class sees that as in any way desirable or defensible and it destroys the ‘we are all in this Budget fixing together’ lie they are trying to promulgate. This latest blunder, one of such magnitude, shows how isolated from and toxic to the public Abbott is and may see him soon rolled. How much longer can the Liberals hang on to and with this buffoon? How much longer will the ruling class put up with their idiot? Not much longer I suspect.
A map: white Australia has a black history
Posted by John, January 26th, 2015 - under Invasion day.
Tags: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Australia Day
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Invasion Day: a day of mourning not celebration
Posted by John, January 23rd, 2015 - under Invasion day, Red flag.
Tags: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Australia Day
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While the Australian flag is draped everywhere, and the speeches sing the praises of this supposedly free, multicultural society, the Indigenous owners live day in and day out with the consequences of the racism rooted in the colonial project of occupation writes Sandra Bloodworth in Red Flag.
I won’t be singing Advance Australia Fair on Invasion Day
Posted by John, January 18th, 2015 - under Invasion day.
Tags: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Advance Australia Fair, Australia Day, Beds are burning, Flag burning
Comments: 6
How about a collective flag burning across Australia at noon on Invasion Day to celebrate opposition to genocide, murder, rape, torture and slavery?