I never know when to say that–it’s not Oz day here yet, but it’s been going on for hours in actual Australia. Anyway, I’m listening to Kylie on my favorite local radio station … where “local” is defined in astronomical terms, apparently.
The Digital Cuttlefish
Since the music plays so briefly... Can you blame me if I dance?
And a good day to you too. There is a bit of scandal in the PM honouring Prince Philip with a knighthood. Very few people seem to think this was a good idea.
I get the sense that society is becoming aware that the celebrations gloss over Indigenous people’s perception of the arrival of the first fleet in Botany Bay.
Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you amen!
First Bruce: This here’s the wattle, the emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand.
Everybruce: Amen!
More:
http://www.montypython.net/scripts/bruceskit.php
You conned us into joining you in Vietnam but we got our own back when we sent you Ken Ham and Rupert Murdoch.
Echidna–
Immediately after posting this, I was listening to the news on RTR-FM (Perth), and the newsreader mentioned the controversy, and a move to rename the day “Invasion Day”.
And here’s ignorance for you–I had never (not my country, so never gave it a thought) considered that this celebration might be viewed with all the deserved bitterness of Columbus Day in the US.
echidna:
Definitionally, anyone born in Australia is indigenous to Australia, whether or not they are Indigenous, but only those descended from the indigenes predating the pre-European invasion are aborigines (Aboriginal).
(The euphemism treadmill has been at work here)
Aussie! Aussie ! Aussie! Oy! Oy! Oy! ;-)
Cheers!
But dangnabbit, they really shoulda played the traditional ODI at the Adelaide oval not the flamin’ SCG! (Flippin’ wash out dammit!)
@ 4. Cuttlefish : Well I do believ “Survival Day” is a slightly more positive alternative term also used there.
But yes.
I think we (Aussie here) do need to set aside a day (Or three) to remember and contemplate and recognise the First Australians and their many and varied cultures and peoples and lives pre- Europrn “settlement”. If only we had listened to and learned from them – in so many ways when it comes to looking after(or being stewards of) Country. Sigh.
Oh and our real anthemn and story starts with them and we must forget it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjkrjYitgeA
(Living on Kaurna and Peramangk land. Near the fountain of tears remembering the Stolen Children of Colebrook house and elsewhere. The evil we did in the past cannot be changed. But must never be forgotten.)
Where did the word “never” hat was meant to be here :
go?
Also this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N5ZsCGjUz0
Powerful fusion ‘twixt Oils and The Warumpi Band. This is so much Australia. Who we are. What we need to face up to and understand.