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Support for Australia Day celebration on January 26 drops: new research (theconversation.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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New polling shows a significant drop in support for January 26 in just two years.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

It's become a day/weekend for bogan flag waves to get drunk and annoy the shit out of everyone.

It's the only long weekend I stay home and don't go camping due to ever increasing fuckwits.

The entire idea of Australia Day means nothing to me anymore.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

It's literally a day off work for me where I can sleep in, nothing more.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's the holiday equivalent of those oversized American utes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Omg that is a fucking brilliant analogy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Perth has an Australia Day tradition that's pretty wholesome. The slogan this year is "Reflect. Respect. Celebrate" it's a family day, very multicultural. Tonight there's fireworks and a drone show.

(I'm here, now. The kids are watching dreamtime stories)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Not many flags?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It's the only long weekend I stay home and don't go camping due to ever increasing fuckwits.

If I do, I go inland away from the maddening crowds and down trails too difficult for common folk, but too boring for P-plated GQ Patrols. Avoid iconic regions. I used to live in SE QLD, and the only safe bet was around Granite Belt areas since everyone would pile to the islands, coasts, and surrounding forests. Helps to be far from a town with a bottle shop, since "the boys" in closer camps will go do top up runs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The Commonwealth and state governments agreed to unify the celebrations on 26 January as "Australia Day" in 1946. So it is not even an age-old tradition the white supremacists like to pretend it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's become a day/weekend for bogan flag waves to get drunk and annoy the shit out of everyone.

Not according to Murdoch's report. Am surprised they published it.

Scenes at Bondi Beach today made it clear: Australia Day certainly isn’t celebrated as it used to be.

“I went to a barbecue last year, and I was surprised because they had heaps of Australian flag stuff out, but they wouldn’t have done that in public,” she said.