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Great suggestion TOO, but that makes way too much sense for our intellectual Pigmy law makers to grasp.

Tiger of old wrote:

Make it the last Monday in January like it used to be, then it's about Australia and not a date. Pretty bloody simple

I honestly think this is the best solution.

26 Jan has been Australia Day since the 1940s , but the actual holiday was always celebrated  as public holiday on last Monday in January, it was actually that great leftwing hero Paul Keating that moved it to the actual day in 1994, so as to mark the day more fully in the same was Anzac Day always falls on 25 April. Ironic really as the left are the ones now trying to kill it.

Growing up in 60s and 70s and 80s not much happened, it was just the last holiday of the year before everyone went back to school or work after the summer break, ideally located for parents to prepare the kids for school year ahead. Or take the mob down the beach for a day off. 

Fired up under Hawk and the 1988 Bicentenary ( an awesome celebration glad I was around to see it)  and Perth had the Sky Show to wrap up the summer long weekend in a big way. 

Before you knew it we had great picnics, bbqs, thousands gathered proudly with flags, citizen ceremonies and the like for one and all, it was actually a great day.

I am adamant that the day should still me marked as the beginning of modern Australia as it indeed was, that settlement kicked off the nation, which is why all the states agreed that it should be the national day.

But having odd days off in middle of week is pain, it was far better before as a handy summer long weekend, one would think it would deflate the anti Australia day mob if we moved it back to the last Monday in January, but I am pretty sure it is not the day they moan about but the actual principle of celebrating the Nation itself, so the moaning will go on and on, and caving into them is fraught with danger. 

 

screemar wrote:

So now we have hairy arsed gays from both sides of the biological fence, indigenous activists, left wing fruit cakes, militant unionists, the ABC all putting their two bobs worth regarding Australia day, guess what, that sulk Albanese is probably sitting at his desk under a banker’s light adding up his rent money from his rentals. He is not a leader, make a decision you goose, either keep the date or make a date, knowing elbow it would be April 1. Anyway, I miss the fireworks in my dad’s back yard, Katerine wheels, penny bombs, sky rockets, roman candles and a bloody big bon fire. shit I can’t remember them all. Cracker night was great.

Great comment, yep Guy Fawkes Cracker Night , bloody laugh us catholics used to love it , pretty much no one knew or cared it was actually an anti catholic celebration...

Mr AFL wrote:

Woolworths won’t celebrate Australia Day but they’ll happily celebrate Diwali Day.

And now the plonkers are promoting China new lunar year!!!  And probably selling all the silly crap that goes with it.!!
Getting behind another country's big day, whilst ignoring our own.??
 

Some idiots in Melbourne have wrecked Captain Cooks statue - sawed his legs off.

Typical feral Victoria.

Cook achieved things they could only dream of and will be a greater man that any of them can ever hope to be.

Sounds to me like some idiots in the St Kilda council were willing to let something like this happen given it's been vandalised a few times before and previously they had security around it this time of year. Surely there are security cameras covering that area.