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Man this is so overblown. If it was moved to the 28th, all these whiners wouldn’t even remember in a year or two. As long as I get a holiday in late January, I don’t care about the date. These people always say the sky will fall if we change anything (gay marriage, banning smoking in bars, etc) then we do it and nothing bad happens.
I reckon you’re right, I didn’t hear any complaining this year about the Triple J Top 100 being on a different date.
I don’t hear anyone talk about the hottest 100 at all these days.
I work most public holidays and was a bit if a ritual to listen to it while we worked. When they moved it I just no longer listened to it. Now I don’t think I know anyone that listens to it.
Respect for this approach.
Then there’s the “these people will never be happy” slippery slope line… after all of those changes, people celebrated and appreciated them and that was it.
That’s also true. I don’t think this change will fix everything.
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While I disagree with down voting, especially en masse or on racist grounds, I am also against public shaming of voting. It’s part of the reason voting is partly hidden.
Of course, you can only have a discussion with commenters, not lurkers.
Yes, I only ever see you here to stir up drama and your flood of posts agitating against a day you would never celebrate anyway regardless of the date are no exception. You’re doing it again with this comment, post stuff that’s not attempting to stir up shit if you want upvotes.
Wow, tracing people online. :-) I hate racism, promoting one race over other is racism no mater what. All this jumping around First nation only creates more hate toward them, it is not helping at all. Want to help, help people in disadvantage no matter what race they are. If it will go predominately to aboriginals, fine, it means they need it more.
I hate racism, promoting one race over other is racism no mater what
Very true. Why, then, are you not opposed to our national celebratory holiday being moved away from a day seen as a day of mourning by some, because of what it represents for them and their culture?
It affects only a very small percentage of the population. For the majority, that date means nothing outside its official meaning. And no matter what day you pick, someone will be offended. Just move on; it does not matter in the grand scale of things. But I would agree that putting it on the day when the federation was formed would make more sense, but January 1st is already used.
Ah I see. Racism is ok then, when it “affects only a very small percentage of the population.”
Logic? Please explain how did you come to this conclusion?
It’s your logic, you explain it
I just fail to see how you come to this conclusion based on my post. Please explain.
Racism is ok then, when it “affects only a very small percentage of the population.”
I unblocked you just so I could downvote this ridiculous attempt at shaming people based on YOUR opinion and not fact. You are just as bad as those fascists and racists you rail so hard against. And sadly, you just don’t care.
“Accountability is the same as fascism and racism”
You are such a loser, please block me again so I don’t have to deal with you replying to me.
Also temporarily unblocked because I came across this in modlogs after reporting spammers. Similar with a below poster you’re on here, all hours, spamming inflammatory political post. There’s enough posters who clearly don’t do much else with their time but use lemmy as a means to vent their frustration about their lives. Regardless of if I may appreciate why some protest Australia Day. Finding you then tagged a bunch of people who downvoted you to try and paint them as racist and shame them has all but confirmed this for me.
Edited: removed the redundant personal remarks, as even if stand by them, especially getting off social media, I think enough people are in here making that point. You can celebrate Aus day and not be racist. The binary view and political posting is why the downvote. Im not opposed to moving the day due to what it means to indigenous Australians. Most people celebrate it for having a day off work, to drink, and us becoming our own country/not being poms. Doubt you care given your replies in here but hope that clears it up for you.
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We had a referendum about this, you lost.
We don’t want this identity politics bullshit, we reject it.
So, take this nonsense and shove it where the sun don’t shine.
We had a referendum about this
Not in my lifetime we sure as fuck didn’t.
They’re just saying what we all knew to be true at the time. No voters weren’t voting on the proposed changes to rhe Constitution.
“Anyone that doesn’t like my poster is racist”, and other butthurt assholery, today at 6.
I have an argument that gets those racist idiots to agree to moving the day.
Wouldn’t it be nicer to have a public holiday when the weather’s nicer instead of it being 40 odd degrees? We should move it to a part of the year where it’s still good to go out but it’s not boiling hot. Perfect getting blind drunk and passing out on the grass in the middle of the day weather.
Yes please. We go from ANZAC day in April to fucking December 25th before we get another public holiday in most of Australia.
I dread that ‘public holiday drought’ every year.
Move it to early September or something. Skips the worst of winter and breaks up the work year better.
Come to sunny Melbourne and get grand final day and Melbourne cup day
There’s the honorary kings bday in June/July (lazy and dont remember which). Then there’s the one in October, Melbourne cup I think idk? So there’s two in between. I think 3 would be nice. Thats one every couple of months. Others to many early on in the year anyway. It fucks up January to have one again that soon, having been working somewhere that doesn’t close over Christmas + new years.
I think what we need to do is to start our own Australia day celebration on an agreed date. We have to spend the currently official day either doing nothing or raising awareness and yet the racists(or uninformed if you’re young/new to the country) get to enjoy it celebrating.
I would love a day where we could all celebrate this beautiful country. We need to start the change we want to see in this world and raising awareness has been an excellent step in this journey.
Do you mean that instead of having Australia day be negative on 26th, start the celebration on another day first. Let the mood shift there naturally, rather than out of negativity on the day that’s already in place, albeit inappropriately.
That’s actually a pretty fucking good idea. Why wait for the government to tell us what to do, they can follow our lead.
There was a moment on question everything where someone suggested a two word slogan for the yes vote: ‘long weekend’.
You can see Will Anderson’s mind explode.
edit: I looked it up - S3E1 27m20s
Link to the QR code btw: https://www.clothingthegaps.com.au/pages/not-a-date-to-celebrate
Can you please add this to the post for visibility @Deceptichum@quokk.au?
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Topical: ‘Celebrating Australia Day in 2026’.
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Whis AI made this? Australians don’t use month-day format, we use day-month format.
Ps, nothing against the statement being made here…
It’s not AI made and where are you even seeing a XX/XX/XX format on this poster?
“January 26 15” at the top. I mean, even translating that from American date format, it still doesn’t make sense unless the poster was originally made for Australia day 2015…
Again though, nothing against the statement being made, I am in the “Australia day isn’t a celebration” camp too. Just a shame the date format isn’t Australian date format. It detracts from the effectiveness of the statement by making the incorrect date format the focus, rather than the statement being made.
Thats “is” not “15”, a fair mistake to make the font does make it look like a 15
That says is not 15.
Yeah I know that now. 😊
It was a fair enough mistake tho, bad font choice.
That’s IS not 15
Fair enough, although “January 26” is still American date format, not Australian date format.
Anyway, not trying to cause an argument or anything, just pointing out some tips you might like to pass on to the graphic designer and marketing team. I’ll see myself out.
We have no standard for if we say 26 of Jan or Jan 26th. The only standard we have is for de/mm/yyyy format.
Actually we do have an official standard for both short and long date. It’s “day month year”, not “month day”. Short dates are d/m/yyyy, long dates are dd mmm yyyy. https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/style-manual-resources/quick-guides/quick-guide-dates-and-time#%3A~%3Atext=at+midday+tomorrow.-%2CDates%2C-Use+the+'day
That’s for “Australian Government content”, it’s not the standard for vernacular Australian English.
I think the real commenter thought “26 is” was the 15th month of 2026, which is completely reasonable…
USA vibes up in this thread.
