Australia Day: City shifts celebrations to 'inclusive alternative'

 

A Western Australian port city will delay celebrating Australia's national day after consulting with Aboriginal elders.

 

The Australia Day public holiday marks the arrival of Britain's First Fleet on 26 January 1788.

 

Celebrations are held around the country, but many Indigenous Australians refer to it as "invasion day".

 

Fremantle council said it would hold a "culturally inclusive alternative" on 28 January instead.

 

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38088051

 

-- © Copyright BBC 2016-11-25

The indigenous peoples' grievance industry is in full swing again. Some Native Americans marked yesterday not as Thanksgiving but as "a national day of mourning". I'm guessing there are still Anglo-Saxons who feel aggrieved by the Norman invasion in 1066

 

The SJW's win again.

3 hours ago, SaintLouisBlues said:

The indigenous peoples' grievance industry is in full swing again. Some Native Americans marked yesterday not as Thanksgiving but as "a national day of mourning". I'm guessing there are still Anglo-Saxons who feel aggrieved by the Norman invasion in 1066

 

The bloody Normans conquered Wales and as part of our surrender terms we asked for a Welsh  prince but they give us a Norman prince and so when they became the English we ended up having an English prince of Wales, the best joke ever played on the Welsh and so many of my country folk wave flags at the current incumbent .....

The "conquered" always want to lay the blame elsewhere. It is a fact of history about what happened, like it or not - just learn to live with it and stop with the crying and wringing of hands! In other words, get over it and move on. What is done, is done and not likely to change.

6 hours ago, sandrabbit said:

The bloody Normans conquered Wales and as part of our surrender terms we asked for a Welsh  prince but they give us a Norman prince and so when they became the English we ended up having an English prince of Wales, the best joke ever played on the Welsh and so many of my country folk wave flags at the current incumbent .....

Why  don't they toss  wingnuts?

What a feed of <deleted>... They are all pretty happy with booze, fast food, mobile phones, flushing toilets and a Monthly cheque from the Govt.. 

Maybe Brits should start whinging about being invaded by the Vikings and seek reparations?  It's history.. people get conquered and life moves on. 

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On 11/25/2016 at 2:57 PM, sandrabbit said:

The bloody Normans conquered Wales and as part of our surrender terms we asked for a Welsh  prince but they give us a Norman prince and so when they became the English we ended up having an English prince of Wales, the best joke ever played on the Welsh and so many of my country folk wave flags at the current incumbent .....

 

Well, it's not hard to put one over on you lot, not exactly the sharpest tools in the shed. 

Where is Fremantle anyway?  

9 hours ago, Thechook said:

Where is Fremantle anyway?  

 

If it's beyond the western borders of Queensland, NSW and Victoria, it doesn't matter.