Zali Steggall

TIGER wrote: Maybe focus on issues like health, education, incarceration and communities breaking down instead of worrying about a day and a anthem

Maybe fart and chew gum at the same time.

Baguette has hit the nail on the head.

As to Australia Day and what date it should be, who cares ? But every nation should have a national day to be proud of their country, and show a bit of patriotism.

having grown up. and going to school with, and working with, many indigenous people,all of my life thus far, most of whom i can claim as friends and in a few cases, through extended family,related to, i am always amazed at the lack of knowledge, or lack of personal engagement, or respect, of a people on whom our forebears imposed themselves. we missed an opportunity to have something like the waitangi treaty that at least laid out something resembling a level playing field for nz, as has been mentioned within the thread, too many people making tokenistic contributions or window dressing a bigger more broader issue by changing one word in a national song,a song that is something that should have been a shoe in really, by creating or changing anything like that into something that everyone participates in and as in new zealand sing it in indigenous and english, simples, 

I'm not downplaying dispossession, marble, but you have to read between the lines a little bit, with the "outraged" types not even rating the droves of wretched convicts consigned to a similar or worse fate, as  worthy of even attracting a scintilla of sympathy. Genuine concern for human rights doesn't jive with that, and the invasion day hand wringers lay exposed as hypocrites by that omission.