gadj1976 wrote:AFL teams/clubs trying to be politically correct. It leads into a mire of controversy and issues that I'm sure they're not prepared for.
I think it's been nothing but positive from all involved
by MW » Fri Jan 28, 2022 12:29 pm
gadj1976 wrote:AFL teams/clubs trying to be politically correct. It leads into a mire of controversy and issues that I'm sure they're not prepared for.
by Booney » Fri Jan 28, 2022 12:32 pm
MW wrote:gadj1976 wrote:AFL teams/clubs trying to be politically correct. It leads into a mire of controversy and issues that I'm sure they're not prepared for.
I think it's been nothing but positive from all involved
by Lightning McQueen » Fri Jan 28, 2022 12:47 pm
by Corona Man » Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:13 pm
Lightning McQueen wrote:I disengage from the Australia Day debate, I don't want to feel guilty celebrating a day that was always a special one growing up.
I now use it to catch up on some crap around the house, it has lost it's appeal and prestige.
I don't have the answer.
by whufc » Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:30 pm
Lightning McQueen wrote:I disengage from the Australia Day debate, I don't want to feel guilty celebrating a day that was always a special one growing up.
I now use it to catch up on some crap around the house, it has lost it's appeal and prestige.
I don't have the answer.
by Lightning McQueen » Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:37 pm
Corona Man wrote:Lightning McQueen wrote:I disengage from the Australia Day debate, I don't want to feel guilty celebrating a day that was always a special one growing up.
I now use it to catch up on some crap around the house, it has lost it's appeal and prestige.
I don't have the answer.
I’m much the same on this topic.
Played golf had a few beers & chilled out.
It’s a shame the day has become as divisive as it has.
I can see both sides. I don’t have a solution either.
by Lightning McQueen » Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:40 pm
whufc wrote:Lightning McQueen wrote:I disengage from the Australia Day debate, I don't want to feel guilty celebrating a day that was always a special one growing up.
I now use it to catch up on some crap around the house, it has lost it's appeal and prestige.
I don't have the answer.
Yeah same....Australia Day used to be my favourite day of the year to celebrate my love of beer, bbq, cricket, pool/beach, music and women in bikinis. There nearly all gone now..no more cricket or music on Aussie Day and well as I reach my 40's women there is not as many women in bikinis attracted to me
Personally I would just love it moved to the first Monday of February as an example so then it isn't on an exact date as it would change each year. Then we can go about celebrating green and gold, bbq, kangaroos, boomerangs and wife beater singlets and we can **** any relevance to captain cook right off. Not that I think about any of that historic stuff on the day.
by scottroo » Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:06 pm
by Gosaints » Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:16 pm
by Pseudo » Fri Jan 28, 2022 8:01 pm
Lightning McQueen wrote:whufc wrote:Lightning McQueen wrote:I disengage from the Australia Day debate, I don't want to feel guilty celebrating a day that was always a special one growing up.
I now use it to catch up on some crap around the house, it has lost it's appeal and prestige.
I don't have the answer.
Yeah same....Australia Day used to be my favourite day of the year to celebrate my love of beer, bbq, cricket, pool/beach, music and women in bikinis. There nearly all gone now..no more cricket or music on Aussie Day and well as I reach my 40's women there is not as many women in bikinis attracted to me
Personally I would just love it moved to the first Monday of February as an example so then it isn't on an exact date as it would change each year. Then we can go about celebrating green and gold, bbq, kangaroos, boomerangs and wife beater singlets and we can **** any relevance to captain cook right off. Not that I think about any of that historic stuff on the day.
Yeah, some interesting "Aussie" points there, I don't think about Captain Cook at all on Australia Day, it was always more of Gangajang, Paul Kelly, John Willaimson and Schoumann, as kids we'd listen to Aussie anthems all day while the cricket was on, sometimes we got to go, then there was Skyshow on for the afternoon/evening.
Times have changed.
by whufc » Fri Jan 28, 2022 10:43 pm
by Psyber » Sat Jan 29, 2022 11:42 am
by jo172 » Sat Jan 29, 2022 11:53 am
Psyber wrote:My understanding is that Australia Day celebrates the formation of the one country when all the states agreed to form the national federation. .
by Wedgie » Sat Jan 29, 2022 12:48 pm
jo172 wrote:Psyber wrote:My understanding is that Australia Day celebrates the formation of the one country when all the states agreed to form the national federation. .
... That would be the first of January
Agree with what's further above, just make it the first monday in February and be done with it.
It's like gay marriage in that the winds of progress are so self-evidently pushing in a direction that it will be changed eventually, putting a stick in the ground about something no one is really that attached to just to delay what's going to happen a little bit further is a waste of energy, and evidently hurtful to at least some of your fellow Australians.
by mighty_tiger_79 » Sat Jan 29, 2022 12:50 pm
by Wedgie » Sat Jan 29, 2022 1:05 pm
mighty_tiger_79 wrote:Had a brief discussion at work prior to the public holiday and Federation Day came up, but then we'd lose the day off as it coincides with New Years Day....
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by Dinglinga75 » Sat Jan 29, 2022 1:45 pm
by jo172 » Sat Jan 29, 2022 3:50 pm
by Dinglinga75 » Sat Jan 29, 2022 5:44 pm
jo172 wrote:Mabo Day and Sorry Day have obvious symbolic attraction, but a public holiday in late January has greater appeal.
My suggestion, sack the Queen's birthday as a concept, replace it with Mabo Day. (also can just have the public holiday on the nearest Monday, separate Mabo Day and the Mabo Day Holiday conceptually)
Rename New Years Day Federation Day
Public holiday to be named by someone more clever on the last weekend in January being usually the Monday, but if this falls on the 26th, have it on the Friday.
by Psyber » Sat Jan 29, 2022 7:10 pm
jo172 wrote:Psyber wrote:My understanding is that Australia Day celebrates the formation of the one country when all the states agreed to form the national federation. .
... That would be the first of January
Agree with what's further above, just make it the first monday in February and be done with it.
It's like gay marriage in that the winds of progress are so self-evidently pushing in a direction that it will be changed eventually, putting a stick in the ground about something no one is really that attached to just to delay what's going to happen a little bit further is a waste of energy, and evidently hurtful to at least some of your fellow Australians.
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