Australia Day 26 Jan 2020 This is part of something I wrote once on Australia day after being offended by Australia haters. I post it somewhere each year.
Because I’ve become a conservative in recent years, and I want to be mindful of what unites us rather than what will divide us for no gain.
From now on I’m going to do something positive on Australia Day. One thing will be going somewhere Australians are celebrating. I didn’t do anything wrong and neither did they. If Australians really are sorry for what others did in the past, an apology has been made by Rudd and it is either accepted or not. If you want to continue to be sorry you should go to an Aboriginal community. They’re dysfunctional and in serious trouble and need your help rather than a gesture.
I didn’t do anything to be ashamed of. Should I and everyone who feels the same demand an apology from the British Government for sending convicts and settlers here which has resulted in us having to defend our national day from people who would shame us into thinking Australians are racists and bigots and murderers?
If we didn’t settle Australia, someone else would have certainly done it by now. How about expansionist Japan before and during the Pacific war and the way they treated the people of their occupied countries?
Would Australia’s Aborigines be better or worse off if a different people than us were here.
I’m a white indigenous Australian. I was born here and I don’t have a right to be anywhere else. That means I don’t belong anywhere else but in Australia.
Russ Gardner