What a tragic case we have gotten, when leaders, and leaders of high-profile organisations as massive as Cricket Australia and Tennis Australia, resolve to not recognise and salute Australia Day.
Added to that 80 councils is not going to recognise Australia Day.
However little doubt they are going to be taking the benefit of the general public vacation that has been proclaimed for Friday, January 26.
Australia Day is legislated all through the nation as January 26. Till and if that adjustments, we should always have a good time our historical past, our range and extra importantly what now we have and are on the twenty sixth and what the long run presents us all.
Simply give it some thought for a second. In what number of different international locations world wide on their nationwide day will folks be waking as much as navy conflicts, deaths, accidents, famine or illness, racial and spiritual intolerance? Dozens!
What is going to we be waking as much as?
A safe and harmonious society. A democratic society, and proudly, essentially the most envied multicultural nation on earth.
Sure, now we have present points similar to price of residing, housing and variety of wealth, however we’re a free nation.
A nation the place the bulk can stay their desires, which is why so many individuals from different international locations search refuge and alternative right here.
But so a lot of our leaders hold placing our strengths down. Devaluing what we’re, what now we have.
It’s not till you lose one thing you realise how vital it was.
So, who’s on the entrance foot, selling our strengths, our freedoms, our alternatives?
Clearly not Cricket Australia or those that organise the Australian Tennis Open.
Simply keep in mind it was Tennis Australia that took $60m of your and my cash once they, like all of us, suffered due to Covid. What number of different international locations would even ponder the rescue of a sporting physique in bother?
Australia can. Victoria did. I supported that bail out.
Why doesn’t the Australian Open help the nation that helps it?
Disgraceful!
I’ve mentioned earlier than, if the powers that be can discover a extra applicable day to have a good time Australia Day, I’m not against contemplating a change.
However till and if that work is completed and agreed upon, let’s have a good time and salute who we’re and what our future is perhaps.
As for these apologists who wish to suck the most effective out of our nation, who merely wouldn’t have the power to offer the management for such celebration, possibly they need to transfer to Russia, Ukraine, Israel or the Gaza Strip to raised admire what Australia is and what now we have obtained, and why being Australian is price celebrating.
So let me be constructive. If not, January 26, what is perhaps an choice?
February 7, 1788 was the day formal proclamation of the primary State, then the colony of NSW, was learn out. Hardly a day that meets a nationwide goal.
January 1, 1901, was when the Commonwealth of Australia was shaped. It is a day that could possibly be celebrated because it entails all States and Territories, though the Structure at the moment didn’t present for our Indigenous neighborhood to be recognised and counted in any census that was performed. So not inclusive of all Australians.
January 26, 1948 noticed the proclamation of The Nationality and Citizenship Act which created Australian citizenship for the primary time. Up till then we had solely been British nationals.
The referendum of Could 27, 1967 was handed by 90.77 per cent of Australia’s inhabitants that allowed for the counting of Indigenous peoples. For the primary time we had been one neighborhood.
On March 3, 1986 the Australia Act got here into pressure being the ultimate step in Australia’s constitutional independence from Britain.
This date, March 3, appears to me to be essentially the most related if any change is to happen.
One impartial nation, one folks no matter the place and once we arrived.
For now, have a good time Australia Day on January 26, with gusto and satisfaction, as now we have a lot to have a good time.
Initially printed as Jeff Kennett: Australia Day exhibits what a tragic case we’re turning into
