"Australians all let us rejoice for we are young and free..."
But oh rats. Mere hours ago we learned of 2x world championship Tyler Wright’s impassioned call to her fellow countrypersons to forego traditional Australia Day celebrations and attended protests for Invasion Day instead.
“Jan 26th is Invasion Day…” she wrote. “My fellow white and non indigenous Australian friends where are you all showing up for Invasion Day marches? If you can’t make one, how else are you showing up for First Nations people everyday? Unity comes after accountability and truth telling. Let’s hold each other accountable. Let’s all do better to dismantle individual, systemic, structural and institutionalised racism founded in white supremacy.”
Woke n wonderful… except…….
Oh nuts.
Queensland authorities from Maroochydore in the south to as far north as Cairns found fragments of Covid-19 in the sewage sparking panic as it suggests undetected cases are roaming amongst the general population and very likely heeding Tyler Wright’s call to show up everyday.
Queensland recorded zero locally acquired cases of coronavirus on Tuesday but an alert was issued after fragments of the virus were detected at seven sewage treatment plants in the state and then a large Invasion Day march took place in Brisbane.
Much testing is being encouraged as the fragments could be from persons who had already had the disease but could also suggest the lightly-symptomed are out holding other persons accountable, dismantling individual, systemic, structural and institutionalized racism etc.
Yeopersons work, no doubt.
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It is really hard to explain what you see when you work & live in communities that have been touched by mining..Which is so prevelant in modern inland Australia..
So much money being thrown at elders through organisations that are supposed to represent the indigenous of the area.
Money then gets passed on to favoured members of the community enabling them to keep their power.
The majority of the people at the bottom of the pile stay in poverty & don’t see a cent.
The now wealthy upper class develop an entitlement not wanting to work but happy to accept royalties while living the good life in Sydney & Melbourne.
The mining company’s are happy because the elders & so called leaders are not making a noise to the media, p.r. is good. To their credit company’s have been providing opportunities for aboriginals who are willing to work..
But most of the poor fuckers that live in the communities are happy to eak out a living on government welfare & the scraps that fall off the elders table.
Most don’t see work as an option, why would they when they watch the heads of their community get millions of sit down $$..& don’t forget the whole world owes them big time..
(Maybe the world does? But how much? to whom? When will everybody be happy to move forward?)
So they are stuck in the welfare cycle.
Then they hit the piss hard because they live in a dead end town & have fuck all to do each day & future looks dull.
Family violence & worse kick in & they pass the batton on to their 8 year old kids who are wondering the streets with empty bellies not prepared to face the horrors of going home..
It’s fucked. They are fucked. We are fucked. Australia day is fucked.
Aboriginal elders need to be made accountable or governments & mining companys will continue to stuff there pockets full of bribes & the guys on the bottom of the pile will rarely make it up the first rung.
They should not be able to pull the race card out at the drop of a hat. These orgs need to be transparent with proper rules & guidelines..
Bhp, Rio, the Government, Elders.
They are all addicted to the $$$$$..& when nobody speaks out it is all good mate. From the ABC news room to the project on 10. Every body on country is presumed to be trying their hardest..
What a joke.
Pretty much agree with you. Most of the people like Tyler who are complaining haven’t been out to these shit mining communities way out in the boonies and seen what it’s like. Why would anyone want to go to Marble Bar or Halls Creek or Wiluna? Why should we expect young aboriginal people with their lives ahead of them to stay in some fucked up shit hole?
We need to stop the cycle of neglect and wasted opportunities.
do you still wear your black tights?
I feel you’re setting your expectations too high
Yeah I got what you meant (sorry for not being clear) and I agree that you shouldn’t suggest ‘getting over it’ when you don’t know what someone’s been through. But helping someone get over something and recognising that getting over something is probably more healthy than dwelling on it isn’t the same as ignorantly suggesting that a race of people just get over something horrific.
You do a wonderful personification of a goat.
So real
Possibly holocaust survivors would’ve loved to have been able to ‘get over it and move on’, but were too traumatised to do so? Maybe I’m a little ignorant of how recent and extreme the persecution of first nation Australians has been, but is it really comparable to Nazi Germany? I think it would be a bit cunty to suggest to any person or group that they get over it and move on. However I think most of us would agree that we should strive for a society that allows those on the fringes to get over whatever it is they need to get over and move on(wards and upwards). But how are these protests helping? I get the power of protests; they raise awareness which can effect change. But what issues are being raised here? Er, hey, you know what, we were a bit naughty in the past weren’t we? Go and slap yourself and your friends on the wrist. It all seems a vague and guilt ridden to be of much use, and the fact they’re happening during a pandemic is rubbing people up the wrong way.
“those on the fringes to get over whatever it is they need to get over and move on”
Pretty sure he’s talking about Otto and Bex here
Simple… don’t swim at sewerage treatment plants.
So yeah back to the WSL, which according to a press release I (and for sure Chas!) received this morning, has a Senior Vice President of Ocean Responsibility.
King Neptune? Or maybe Ponyo’s Dad
I think it might be King Neptune’s way of telling you you’ve still got too much fucken money.
Now they’re claiming responsibility for the Oceans ???
Fucken Hell. That’s nek level !
What a waterman.
well according to the press release, they’re only really going for 30% responsibility. but I’ll let Chas figure that out, because I totally cannot.
Still, a 30% claim is not bad when they had zero yesterday.
It’s pretty good really. Lotsa upside potential.
Does this put or pass on more responsibility on getting the It’s ON!/On Hold call right?
I don’t receive! I get nothing from them!
That sounds like a scandal. Blacklisted? Has ELo changed the locks on the door to the inner sanctum?
who got the Junior VP spot?
That’s me. But I’m aiming up.
Wasn’t this super spreadher organized by Tyler Wright?
Ha!
Chas it’s been officially, wokely changed to “….we are one and free”. I wish while they were at it they also got rid of “girt”, as in “our home is girt by sea”!
This is funny as i live in QLD very close to Maroochydore and I only heard this on beach grit, no ones panicking about anything mate, good story though
I sailed to Maroochydore once and loved!
The daily mail? Really?
Awesome bro, it’s a beautiful place, I love living on the sunny coast
Are they marching against the past? I don’t think that will help much but my time travel experience is limited to the occasional black out. If they change the date it will only work if you change it to a future date. If you change it to a day that’s already happened you are going to be late.
only a danger to sewer rats up yapoon…
Tyler Thunberg – ppppffftttt
Maroochydore to Cairns? whiffs of 4 backpackers on a station wagon pilgrimage to me.
Can I go to a close friend’s funeral? NO!
Can I drive 50 miles to go for a surf? NO!
Can I sit on my own enjoying a view of the river whilst eating a sausage roll for a few minutes? NO!
Can I rub shoulders with hundreds of people for a few hours as part of a retarded, oppositonless protest? YEAH NO PROBLEM!
If you are calling the protest retarded, maybe you are the opposition? Queensland doesn’t have any of those restrictions.
Yeah you might be right. Could be that I’m also the retard. But I feel like people are protesting against things that happened hundreds of years ago which seems a bit pointless. I mean, I don’t think there’s too many people saying ok great, that’s the first race Aussies (if that’s the right term) fucked over; what race can we conquer now? And apologies for not recognising the specific Covid situation in Aus – I don’t live there.
I can see that you’re frustrated.
Well OK you don’t live in Australia. So what a lot of people in Australia are trying to do right now is not “protest against things that happened hundreds of years ago which seems a bit pointless”. They are trying to re-set how Australians see the country’s human history. Most white Aussies grew up in an educational and social environment which completely glossed over this history, which meant they only ever understood that history from the date currently in question and from 1770, when Cook mapped the east coast. They (me included) only understood white history, and only parts of that. It made Jan 26 a super easy day to have a piss up and a barbie etc. But it’s not fucking good enough.
My partner is Russian and her Mum was taught that the USA entered WW2 with Hiroshima.
Propaganda still exists.
The word Genocide was never used at my school.
Maybe read this article that was written by Ray Payne OAM and it might make you think why are they protesting this date?
“Australia Day does not celebrate the arrival of the first fleet or the invasion of anything.
Captain Cook did not arrive in Australia on the 26th of January. The Landing of Captain Cook in Sydney happened on the 28th of April 1770 – not on the 26th of January 1770.
The First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay on the 18th of January. The 26th was chosen as Australia Day for a different reason; however, Captain Cook’s landing was included in Australia Day celebrations as a reminder of a significant historical event.
Since the extravagant bicentenary celebrations of 1988, when Sydney-siders decided Captain Cook’s landing should become the focus of the Australia Day commemoration, the importance of this date for all Australians has begun to fade.
Now, a generation later, it’s all but lost.
This is because our politicians and educators have not been doing a good job promoting the day. Our politicians have not been advertising the real reason for Australia Day, and our educators have not been teaching our children the importance of the 26th of January to all Australians.
The media, as usual, is happy to twist the truth for the sake of controversy.
In recent years, the media has helped fan the flames of discontent among the Aboriginal community. Many are now so offended by what they see as a celebration of the beginning of the darkest days of Aboriginal history, they want the date changed.
Various local Councils are seeking to remove themselves from Australia Day celebrations, even refusing to participate in citizenship ceremonies, and calls are going out to have Australia Day on a different day.
The big question is, why has the Government allowed this misconception to continue?
Captain Cook didn’t land on the 26th of January. So changing the date of any celebration of Captain Cook’s landing would not have any impact on Australia Day, but maybe it would clear the way for the truth about Australia Day.
The reality is, the Aborigines in this country suffered terribly under the hands of British colonialism. This is as much Australia’s history as the landing of the first fleet, and both should be remembered, equally. Both should be taught, side by side, in our schools.
Australians of today abhor what was done under British governance to the Aborigines. We abhor what was done under British governance to the Irish and many other cultures around the world.
So, after the horrors of WWII, we decided to fix it. We became our own people.
On the 26th of January 1949, the Australian nationality came into existence when the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 was enacted. That was the day we were first called Australians and allowed to travel with Passports as Australians.
Under the Nationality Act 1920 (Cth), all Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders born after January 1, 1921, gained the status of British subjects. In 1949, therefore, they automatically became Australian citizens under the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948.
Before that special date, all people living in Australia, including Aborigines born after 1921, were called ‘British Subjects’ and forced to travel on British Passports and fight in British wars.
We all became Australians on the same day!
This is why we celebrate Australia Day on the 26th of January!
This was the day Australians became free to make our own decisions about which wars we would fight and how our citizens would be treated. It was the day Aborigines were declared Australians.
Until this date, Aborigines were not protected by law. For the first time since Cook’s landing, this new Act gave Aboriginal Australians by inference and precedent the full protection of Australian law.
Because of this Act, the government became free to help Aborigines, and since that day much has been done to assist Aboriginal Australians, including saying ‘sorry’ for the previous atrocities done before this law came into being.
This was a great day for all Australians!
This is why the 26th of January is the day new Australians receive their citizenship. It is a day which celebrates the implementation of the Nationality and Citizenship Act of 1948 – the Act which gave freedom and protection to the first Australians and gives all Australians, old and new, the right to live under the protection of Australian Law, united as one nation.
Now, isn’t that cause for celebration?
Education is key! There is a great need for education on the real reason we celebrate Australia Day on the 26th of January. This reason needs to be advertised and taught in schools. We all need to remember this one very special day in Australia’s history, when freedom came to all Australians.
What was achieved that day is something for which all Australians can be proud!
We need to remember both the good and the bad in our history, but the emphasis must be the freedom and unity all Australians now have, because of what was done on the 26th of January 1949, to allow all of us to live without fear in a land of peace.
Isn’t it time all Australians were taught the real reason we celebrate Australia Day on Jan 26th?”
26 January 1788 was when the first fleet moved to Port Jackson after arriving on 20 January.
That is why we have Australia day on 26 jan,
and why the citizenship act was enacted on 26 jan 1949.