Australia Day
A personal view
It is 08:31 on January 26, 2022 and it is supposedly Australia Day¹. Over the past few decades the meaning of Australia Day has changed. From being a celebration of Australia’s founding and all things thereof, it has become a day of contention, and mourning, and splits in what it means to be Australian.
I remember as a kid being asked at school what it meant to be Australian. What does it take to be considered a “true” Aussie? No-one I know has been able to come up with an answer that everyone can, or will agree on.
The funny thing is the ones most concerned about being considered true-blue Aussies are also the very ones following a right wing agenda founded by a group of people who set out to define what a real European (or at least German/Spanish/Italian) was and who we fought, and who in turn killed Australian troops during WW2.
The ones wearing the flag while showing off their Southern Cross tattoos and acting as though they are the only ones in the whole of existence who are entitled to do so are in fact our biggest enemy and would be the first to sell us out to the first fascist country that tried to take over our democracy.
I don’t celebrate Australia Day, nor do I celebrate most other special days. To me if a single day has to be special, then all days are special.
