New polling shows a significant drop in support for January 26 in just two years.
- bestusername ( @bestusername@aussie.zone ) 19•8 months ago
It’s become a day/weekend for bogan flag waves to get drunk and annoy the shit out of everyone.
It’s the only long weekend I stay home and don’t go camping due to ever increasing fuckwits.
The entire idea of Australia Day means nothing to me anymore.
- PetulantBandicoot ( @PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone ) English13•8 months ago
It’s literally a day off work for me where I can sleep in, nothing more.
- Nonameuser678 ( @Nonameuser678@aussie.zone ) 10•8 months ago
It’s the holiday equivalent of those oversized American utes
- Zagorath ( @Zagorath@aussie.zone ) 2•8 months ago
Omg that is a fucking brilliant analogy.
- Nath ( @Nath@aussie.zone ) 6•8 months ago
Perth has an Australia Day tradition that’s pretty wholesome. The slogan this year is “Reflect. Respect. Celebrate” it’s a family day, very multicultural. Tonight there’s fireworks and a drone show.
(I’m here, now. The kids are watching dreamtime stories)
- sqgl ( @sqgl@beehaw.org ) 1•8 months ago
Not many flags?
- sqgl ( @sqgl@beehaw.org ) 2•8 months ago
The Commonwealth and state governments agreed to unify the celebrations on 26 January as “Australia Day” in 1946. So it is not even an age-old tradition the white supremacists like to pretend it is.
- ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻ ( @unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ) English2•8 months ago
Some extra context on that:
Despite not being recognised nationally the foundation of the colony of NSW had been celebrated much longer
- sqgl ( @sqgl@beehaw.org ) 1•8 months ago
It’s become a day/weekend for bogan flag waves to get drunk and annoy the shit out of everyone.
Not according to Murdoch’s report. Am surprised they published it.
Scenes at Bondi Beach today made it clear: Australia Day certainly isn’t celebrated as it used to be.
“I went to a barbecue last year, and I was surprised because they had heaps of Australian flag stuff out, but they wouldn’t have done that in public,” she said.
- ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻ ( @unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ) English2•8 months ago
I don’t get it first they’re saying that the majority of Australians celebrate Australia Day over on Sky but now they’re admitting maybe they were wrong on Sky?
- sqgl ( @sqgl@beehaw.org ) 1•8 months ago
Maybe they figure there is more money in being controversial than in pandering to what has been their base?
- guillem ( @guillem@aussie.zone ) 4•8 months ago
Foreigner here. Would you like a different date? When? Or would rather re-define the current one?
Edit. I just saw the SJ Patterson post and learned a lot on there.
- Zagorath ( @Zagorath@aussie.zone ) English7•8 months ago
saw the SJ Patterson post and learned a lot on there
Haha yeah.
What isn’t exactly made explicit in that thread (it’s sorta just understood by everyone, so while hints towards it are there, nobody needed to make it explicit), 26 January is associated with the arrival of white people on this land, and thus it’s symbolic of the start of oppression towards the Aboriginal population. Among progressive and Aboriginal circles, you’ll often see it called “invasion day” for that reason.
That’s why people think it should be moved, though agreeing on when to move it to is a much harder proposition.
Some people want it to stay around this time of year because it’s summer and people like barbies and outdoors. Others say we have enough holidays already between late December and early May (Christmas, Boxing Day, New Year, Good Friday, Easter Monday, ANZAC Day, Labour Day) and would like to see something in the back half of the year, between September and November. Then there’s the question of whether or not it should be a day that has meaningful symbolism, and if so what that symbolism should be.
I’ll re-share my proposed alternatives in case anyone else wants to see them:
3 March as the day of commencement of the Australia Act (1986), which saw the last vestiges of Australia’s status as a British dominion ended.
3 September as the day Australia adopted the Statute of Westminster with the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942, which removed the United Kingdom’s ability to legislate over the Commonwealth of Australia and making Australia truly a legally independent nation in a de jure sense.
9 July as the date the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 became law, enabling the constitution to actually take effect on 1 January 1901.
- Nonameuser678 ( @Nonameuser678@aussie.zone ) 3•8 months ago
We do the queen/king’s bday on a different date to whatever the current Monarch’s actual bday is. Surely we could just do the same thing with any of these other dates.
- Nath ( @Nath@aussie.zone ) 2•8 months ago
The march and September dates are already holidays. Not that I object to shuffling Labour day around.
- Zagorath ( @Zagorath@aussie.zone ) English2•8 months ago
According to the Australian holidays calendar I subscribe to, 4 March is Labour Day in Western Australia. That would just mean they get an extra-long weekend. (Besides, no offence, but that’s a dumb time for Labour Day. In terms of the history of the labour movement, on or about 1 May is when it should be.)
There’s no holiday listed on my calendar on or near 3 September. Are you thinking of October, which is when ACT, NSW, and SA have their Labour Day (plus Qld has King’s Birthday and Christmas Island has Territory Day)?
- Nath ( @Nath@aussie.zone ) 2•8 months ago
It turns out our (WA) Monarch’s birthday is September 23. I thought it was earlier in the month than that. But still, it’s a bit close to September 3.
- Zagorath ( @Zagorath@aussie.zone ) English1•8 months ago
(WA) Monarch’s birthday is September 23
Yeah apparently in WA the Governor chooses each year and announces his decision on the first Monday in June. It’s almost always either the last Monday in September or the first in October.
Edit: his decision is apparently largely based on when school holidays and Perth Royal Show are
But still, it’s a bit close to September 3.
Not really any closer than the current date is to New Year’s.