Kiss Australia Day Goodbye; then Kiss Australia Goodbye! By James Reed
The writing is on the wall for the end of Australia Day, seen as basically racist by our New Class, like everything else. One by one the local elites will do what we see being done in the United States, which is why we need to carefully watch what is happening there and Europe, because it is coming here. In the end, the entire country is deconstructed. But, ultimate conquest by China, which is where this will all go, will then put it all in a new orbit. A homogeneous new society could be created for the 22nd century, with none of the racist Anglo-institutions at all, and no Europeans either, in the long term. Oh, the local Left will also be gone. Human societies, like nature, abhor a vacuum, and if one social order is torn down, as in the United States, another will arise and take its place, as we see with the rise, and soon global dominance, of communist China. The fun and games had by our New Class academics, paid for out of the public purse would not be tolerated for a second in China. Given the way we are plunging down, perhaps this is the inevitable result of the wisdom of natural selection, selecting us out?
“It's become one of the nation's most divisive days, and now it appears Australians are rapidly changing their minds over whether the 26th of January is the most appropriate date to celebrate our nation.
The Australia Talks National Survey 2021 has revealed a majority of people now believe Australia Day should not be celebrated on January 26, given the historical significance of the date for Indigenous nations.
The number of people who agree with that sentiment has jumped by 12 percentage points since the last Australia Talks survey in 2019 — one of the biggest moves in public sentiment between the two surveys.
There has also been a marked shift in the number of people who "strongly agreed" celebrations should move.
In 2019, just 28 per cent of respondents were strongly in favour of seeing a shift to the date, in 2021 that went up to 39 per cent.
Australia 'growing as a reconciled nation'
Shelley Reys says the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is changing.
Shelley Reys has been at the forefront of the Reconciliation movement for three decades.
The Djirribul woman was the inaugural co-chair of Reconciliation Australia and helped to establish the Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) program, which is now used across the corporate world.
She said the change in attitude around Australia Day was a sign the country was "growing and maturing as a reconciled nation".
"That doesn't mean we have got there — we still have a long way to go — but I do think the maturity shows we are now thinking about the relationship between [Indigenous and non-Indigenous people] and how we repair the relationship," she said.
"Part of that is understanding the perspective of the other, and in this case it's about January 26, and possibly changing that date."
Long history of protest
For decades, January 26 has been observed as a day of mourning for Aboriginal and Torres Islander people.
The date is the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788.
In 1938, 100 Aboriginal people from across the country chose that date to meet to condemn "the degrading and humiliating" treatment of Indigenous communities.
The annual public holiday on January 26 was established in 1994, and thousands of new Australians use the occasion to attend their citizenship ceremonies.
In recent years, Australia Day protests have swelled and tens of thousands of people — Indigenous and non-Indigenous — march together all across the country.
Several local councils around the country have stopped celebrating Australia Day on January 26 – against the wishes of the Federal Government.
Earlier this year the Prime Minister said it was important to mark the day as one on which "the journey to modern Australia began".
Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt said he did not agree with changing the date.
"Australia Day is a day to celebrate Indigenous, British and multicultural history and look forward in unity with a determination to build a stronger and more rewarding Australia for all."
Mr Wyatt questioned the Australia Talks findings.
"I note the survey was commissioned by the ABC for the use of the ABC, and the information provided about survey methodology is limited, which raises questions as to the reliability of its suggested findings."
The survey was conducted by Vox Pop Labs for the ABC and is one of the largest conducted in the country. It compares the demographics of the 60,000 survey respondents with census data to weight responses by sex, age, education, language, geography and vote to ensure the views of Australians are accurately reflected.
Since Australia Talks last surveyed Australians on changing attitudes around Indigenous recognition in 2019, tens of thousands of people have marched through capital cities as part of Black Lives Matter protests.
Fifty-nine percent of survey respondents agreed the Black Lives Matter movement, which gained renewed traction last year after the murder of George Floyd in the US, was making an important contribution to conversations about racial injustice in Australia.
For those that protest, there are mixed views over whether to change the date or abolish the national holiday altogether.
Women, young people leading push for change
Women and men had differing thoughts on the question of whether Australia Day should be moved — it was one of the Australia Talks survey questions on which men and women were most divided.
Around two thirds of Australian women are now in favour of a rethink on holding Australia Day on January 26, compared with 51 per cent of men.
Young people overwhelmingly supported a new direction — 65 per cent of Australians aged 18-24 and 71 per cent aged 25-29 were also in favour of a change.
When Ms Reys began her work with Reconciliation Australia, she observed limited support for changing the date of Australia Day.
"It was mainly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were marching the streets and protesting, demonstrating and so no-one was part of a formal, larger, wider conversation," she said.
Now, she said, Australians from all walks of life are more invested in learning more "about our shared history [and] understanding Indigenous perspectives".
"We're trying to dig a little bit deeper about making it more meaningful," she said.”
Notice how it is women and the young who are championing all of this, just like in the United States. These groups are considerably more Leftist and “progressive” than males, especially working class males, and have enabled most of the social movements since the 1960s to take root and grow to plague proportions. There are even academic articles on this, not too hard to find via a Google.
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