Australia Day change ‘political correctness on steroids’

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Most Aussies want Australia Day celebrations to stay on January 26, a new poll has revealed. Do you agree?

 

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It should stay there it’s part of our history.

Sick of this every year the same argument Aboriginals are Australians this invasion day over it totally

No

Yes

They celebrate independence day in America so why cant we celebrate our great country that we live in

AGREED!!! with a caps lock for emphasis.

No matter how long and hard leftists and blue-eyed 'aboriginals' carp on about it Australia day is, and always will be on 26/1. notinvaded notinvadedcivilised australiaday keepthedate auspol

“Most Aussies” What a croc of shit. A survey conducted by the “institute of public affairs” and the rwfw can in no way be held up to be representative.

I’d back the change

Only if your survey is done by the TheIPA

Can we move on and celebrate the nation as is? This debate has become like fathers day and mothers day

Feck, no! Who wants to celebrate Convict Dumping Ground Day? LNPfail PastorPromo ElectionNOW auspol

Change the date? Should be looking at change the title AUSTRALASIA DAY

Australia Day could be the day the links to the Monarchy are cut. So far still a colony unfortunately.

If it’s offensive (which it is) then it should be changed. It’s difficult to promote harmony whilst we celebrate the date of an invasion. Choose another date, call it Australian Harmony Day, be mindful & inclusive of all Australians, first occupiers to new migrants.

eliseulascado Changing the date dosnt change the fact that it was the day Australia advanced by 60k years of evolution

Don't care about the date. Just needs to be a public holiday and in the summer months.

Agree 💯 Australia Day celebrations stay on 26th January.

No I don’t agree. ChangeTheDate

This poll is divisive BULLSHIT. How long has this date been set in concrete? 20 years? FFS 🙄

Will celebrate it January 26th for the rest of my life and those who don’t want to can go cry in a corner. Australian traditional owners are Mongolia from Africa who were here when the continental shift occurred. They were not aboriginals so ajamuary 26th is stays 🎊🎉🎈

I don’t think it should change, but just make it the last Monday in January and everybody wins 😂

Let’s agree to change, provided the agitators can agree on what date they want, and can commit to this being permanent. Of course this effectively means no change ever, as the whining protagonists can’t even agree on whether to have soy or almond “milk” in their turmeric lattes.

An undercurrent of backlash against excessive political correctness is part of the reason that populism puts people like trump in power! People need to feel safe in expressing their opinions.

Leave it alone

No and this is not a real poll. Do some journalism.

How the hell is this political correctness on steroids?WTF?

Agree

No

Australia Day is 26th of January. Any and all public figures who say otherwise should be stripped from office.

Yes I agree.

IPA poll, camon ppl up your game

Leave it alone if it not broken don’t fix it

Yes January 26th is Aus Day. No bloody changes to suit idiotic Greeney who was on radio 873. Is this guy an Australian or us he 1167 yrs oldan Australian

Leave the frigen day n move on stuff ur excuses n reasons, make a bbq open a beer n enjoy a day off

What polll. Bullshit no one asked me. The date has to change. More propaganda.

Is there a need to fucking change it?

Oh derrrrr

I agree

No this needs to change, for indigenous people see it as invasion day

This is not a scientific survey and it is ridiculously the headline implies it is.

Yes

If there was a poll, I didn’t get asked. Where was the poll held? Cronulla?

Same old nonsense every Australia Day. This is a distraction from the most pressing issues facing aborigines; rampant domestic violence and child sex abuse. That's the elephant in the room. 0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes Reply Retweet Like View Tweet activity

But it wouldn’t matter because everyone will be invasion day

Damn yeab

It’s a no brainer for intelligent folk. On the 26th when Phillip arrived Australia was called “Terra Nullius “ meaning devoid of occupation. Which folks is clearly untrue. So all you numbnuts whinging about minority’s. Shutup you’re the immigrant

Yes

Yes

Yes.

Yes leave it 🐨🇦🇺

pleaseuseaussie Yes, yes, yes!

Leave it alone. Also if the arrival of the Brits was an invasion, we won so all of the land rights should be no more.

Political Correctness or Communist county? Isn't that the same thing now in Australia?

💯

No

yes

Yes

Here we going with the left wing virtue signalling idiots and political bullies

Change the date to a day that ALL Australians can feel good about, not just white Australians.

AGREED!!!!!!!!!

It’s only been Australia Day for 30 years, the previous 200 it was the date the first fleet arrived and took up occupancy in a land with some 400+ communities

YES

AuConservatives Yes, yes I do.

Personally I don’t care what day it is but until it is changed I will happily celebrate on Jan 26

You bet

26 jan is the date that a prison ship arrived with unwanted prisoners from a country with overcrowded jails. Don’t get all emotional about that. Let’s find a date that means something to us all including First Nation.

Yes

Yep. 26 Jan it is!

Changing the date is treasonous and will make your kids vegan auspol

Seeing as you asked I personally will do nothing on January 26 to celebrate Australia Day. Not an appropriate date in my opinion.

I’d poll YOU on Australia Day 😘 🍆 💦 🇦🇺

The Gina rineheart funded right wing think tank tries to scuttle back into view? Hahahahaha NEVER listen to the fraud IPA EVER

Yes. Don’t change anything. Don’t destroy our traditions

No

Yes

A poll done by advance Australia. A hate group.

No

Yes, leave Australia Day alone.

Interesting. 20 odd Million ppl in Australia. They ask fewer than 2000 and you say ‘most’ want it to say. How about asking a few more people and a diverse range.

No, if it’s offensive, change it.

AuConservatives Yes

No. It celebrates a day that divided us. We should celebrate what unites us. Just because we've always done it this way doesn't mean its a good idea.

LouiChristopher 26th Jan signified the arrival of the first fleet which led to disposession & oppression of the First Nation peoples in simple words. Hardly worth celebrating a community's loss. It's good to be informed than ignorant.

AuConservatives You can’t have tradition if you keep changing.🇦🇺👍

A poll Truly your inability to question anything that comes from Rupert’s propaganda development arm, the IPA, is laughable!

Any day is fine with me and if they going to change the day then change it on the day when Australia was officially called Australia.

Why celebrate founding a penal colony in NSW?

Always have. The lefties pushed for this. Leave it as it is.

leave it, move it, leave it, move it. quite frankly I couldn't give a toss except that if it is moved, will those that wanted it moved concede that everything that they believe it propagates will now be all better or will we have to still focus on actually making things better?

I'm far more concerned about the Murray/Darling crisis - but that's just me

'most aussies' 😂😂😂

Comes as no surprise, changing the date achieves nothing, but it won't stop the crazies coming out each year and trying to divide and shame those who are happy to see the day stay the same

AuConservatives hahahahaahah lefties have a big sook!

Here we are again. Same debate every year. Leave it on 26 January and let’s address more pressing issues with our first Australians.

AuConservatives Australia Day January 26th. Yes, I agree! Leave it as it is.

Get over it. 26th is AUSTRALIA DAY. Find something else to whine about EVERY year

Absolutely yes yes yes

I don’t know why I just read all this, what a waste of time. Let’s just get on with our lives. Enjoy this awesome country, tell political correctness to f off and enjoy Australia Day.

yes

No sh!t Sherlock

I think there is too much noise around this issue. I would like to be more aware of to what extent the indigenous population wants the date changed without all the activists getting in the way.

No

I think Australia should become a Republic and celebrate Australian Day on the date we become a Republic

No I don’t agree

LouiChristopher No

Yes!

LouiChristopher Bloody oath

Yes

Yep!!!

Well when do we get a CRAP-ALIA Day for all those who wish we had something better? (Pay in $U.S. would be nice). We have no Las Vegas, Disneyland or Times Square. Very little infrastructure besides the Opera House & a coat hanger. Great beaches, but GOD gave us those, not GOV!.

It was never an issue until identity dipsticks started stealing our oxygen.

AuConservatives Change it to 26th of January...

Sounds awfully like the UK Brexit vote. People have spoken and you want another vote to ensure your view which is different says otherwise

Yes. 26th Jan is Australia Day.

Most aussie aren't leftist shills like your editors...

YES!

Depends on the demographic of your reader base. Doubtful many progressives read it (besides me) so it's not reflective of Australia as a whole.

Yep. Political correctness has gone beserk in this country. Change for the sake of change. Just let things be.

Historically the current date makes no sense, and causes some people unnecessary pain so it just makes to keep the current date

A poll conducted by the IPA. Snigger.

Yes leave it... people will always whinge it won’t change if the day is changed..

Doesnt matter really, its just a day when Bogans can get tanked up on XXXX and wear Tee shirts telling non whites to F off back to wherever they came from.

OMGTheMess Totally 👍

'Most Aussies' is a bit of a reach, to be frank - you're using results from a poll conducted by IPA, a right wing conservative group. I doubt their sample is representative, they probably used their own member base 🙄

ChangeTheDate

In a democracy , majority wins. It must or all hell break loose. If date is to be changed have a Republic referendum. If majority wants a Rep, then replace Aust Day by a Republic day on a different date.

Absolutely!

OMGTheMess Yes.

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Definitely !

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Leave Australia day where it is fed up listening to all these do gooders concern with what other peoplw think if Aborigines don't like Austraila day don't celebrate it

All things that the Global Socialist LEFT want Are totally incompatible with freedom, free speech and Western Society Time to FINALLY admit :- * FEMINISM is SOCIALISM * Political 'correct' is CENSORSHIP + CONTROL from the Global Socialist LEFT

OMGTheMess Yes!

Yes of course. i am well and truely over minorities all ways trying to change things against the wishes of the larger majority.

No. I don't think Australia's national day should deliberately poke First Australians in the eye

Yes

No, indigenous Australians have a point. People are too set in their ways and reluctant to see the argument. Australia became a country on Federation day not the day that Cook came here he wasn't even the first non-indigenous person to reach it.

Yes. Leave it alone

AuConservatives Absolutely

1000 people surveyed to represent millions. Love to see the demographics of those interviewed 😂

I think that we should change the date out of respect for indigenous Aussies. Most important thing is that we have harmony and Australia is celebrated. The date doesn't matter imo.

I Agree

I believe the poll answered that question. Why ask again.

Yes. For my own reasons.

Where do u stop? Cancel Anzac Day cos it’s offensive to the nationalities that lost the wars or cancel Easter cos exploitation of rabbits offends vegans. PC can eat my hairy bush onions

Democracy in action. End of story! Now can we move on from this!

Australia Day is 26th January.

Yes 100%

A survey conducted by the IPA - credible? Not!

No I think it should be a day like Federation. Jan 26 is when the British landed slaves/convicts on our shores - it wasn’t until those convicts/immigrants made us into a nation we existed. Our reconciliation with our Indigenous Aussies is for another day n path to follow.

ChangeTheDate

Yes.

AuConservatives Changing the date solves nothing. Why not focus on helping our indigenous communities. Sick of this virtue singnalling rubbish.

AuConservatives Just a few nobodies trying to use aborigines as a way to make a name for themselves, takes these losers out of it and there is no problem.

Tell that to the looney leftie Greens and GetUp

I don't celebrate it, I don't care

Absolutely.

Yes

If multiculturalism is good enough for us now, why wasn't it good enough for aboriginal people a coupla hundred years ago. Multiculturalism and diversity are always good things, right?

It’s better to change .. or it will be called as usual invasion day

AuConservatives Fine. Give back the holiday on Jan 28 and celebrate it ON Australia Day. If it’s so sacred.

You can't say yes here though without being called a racist.

AuConservatives Yes

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