Discussion is currently raging here about the date of the national public holiday to recognise the country. It is on the 26th of this month and called Australia Day.
First Nations People prefer to call it Invasion Day for that is what it is based upon.
However that is not what I wish to discuss. I do not know about other countries but here public holidays are given for Christmas and Boxing days, Good Friday and Easter Monday. Religious holidays in a secular country.
The one day that fails to be recognised is "CITIZEN DAY". This is the day each individual citizen should be entitled to celebrate the anniversary of their birth. To them the most important date in their life.
So what does everyone else think?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.It has just come to my attention that the above post requires amendment as follows:
Australia Day does not represent the date Australia was discovered (1770) and claimed by Capt Cook for England but it is the approximate date that the so called First Fleet of 11 ships of convicts, gaolers,soldiers and a few settlers 'invaded' the country in 1788.
FrayedBear
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Jan 18, 2018
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Give that I am unfamiliar with the groups you refer to, such as First Nations People? Or the holiday of Invasion Day, I can provide no thoughts. Who are the First Nations People?
JustLuAnn
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Jan 18, 2018
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Australian Aboriginals the longest known culture on earth. Carbon dated back about 50,000 years. About 800 individual tribes identified each with own language. Cook claimed the continent in 1770 when he landed in what is now Sydney. 1788 was First Fleet landing. Hence why the public holiday as Australia day but 1st Peoples rightly call invasion day. They were not recognised under Australian law as human beings until 1966. Despite 51 years of recognition genocide in the name of Aboriginal protection is still practiced particularly in W.Australia and N.Territory. Full blood aboriginals were wiped out over 100 years ago in Tasmania. In NWAustralia 40,000 year old rock carvings have been routinely destroyed in the name of industrialisation.
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@FrayedBear I shall read up on this. Thank you kindly. I have seen a bit on Australia but mostly it has to do with the English sending their conscripts over to build the settlements and punishment. I'm not sure how long that continued. Again, just a brief history on it.
@JustLuAnn There is currently controversy over the government's offshore concentration camps incarcerating refugees attempting to enter Australia. A meme seen today posits that Australia has been used as a concentration camp since the first fleet with convicts arrived in 1788.
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