{"id":5028,"date":"2011-01-26T17:36:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T09:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=5028"},"modified":"2011-01-26T17:36:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T09:36:42","slug":"every-australia-day-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/26\/every-australia-day-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Australia Day I…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every Australia Day<\/a> I have the same thoughts:<\/p>\n

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  1. Australia Day should really be on a different calendar day<\/li>\n
  2. We should really be a republic by now<\/li>\n
  3. We should really change that flag<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Australia has an appalling record of gross mistreatment of Indigenous Australians. Scheduling the national day of Australia to fall on a date representing colonisation is: At best, in awfully poor taste; At worst, an instrument for wilful and malicious socio-cultural subjugation.<\/p>\n

    Speaking of subjugation, why do we still support a foreign monarch? In this day and age… it’s pretty amazing (and embarrassing). Surely we can work out some other model of governance.<\/p>\n

    So every Australia Day I come to the same conclusions:<\/p>\n

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    1. We should become a republic<\/li>\n
    2. We should mark the date we do so by making it the new Australia Day<\/li>\n
    3. And we should remove the Union Jack from the flag<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      It seems pretty straight-forward to me. Maybe we could even become a republic on January 26 – provided we do something to properly reconcile all Australians (a simple “sorry” isn’t enough). Hmmm, I’m sure that it will happen eventually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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