It is certainly disastrous for ‘art’ and the quality of work we expect of our cultural experts. "[57], The celebrations in 1938 were accompanied by an Aboriginal Day of Mourning. So I decided to look further into Jacob Stengle. The differences are social constructs in the form of “culture”. This “indigenous” propaganda is generally hopeless, offers no real solutions, and perhaps comes after many other attempts to help these peoples have failed. [87] The same poll found that 49% believe that the date should not be on a date that is offensive to Indigenous Australians, but only 37% believed the current date was offensive. A large gathering of Aboriginal people in Sydney in 1988 led an "Invasion Day" commemoration marking the loss of Indigenous culture. Cultural appropriation, however, is now encouraged in many other spheres. [25] One of these became a tradition that is still continued today: in 1837 the first running of what would become the Australia Day regatta was held on Sydney Harbour. Have a listen to what they say. [25] The governor declared that the day would be a holiday for all government workers, granting each an extra allowance of "one pound [c. 450g] of fresh meat", and ordered a 30-gun salute at Dawes Point – one for each year that the colony had existed. [51] The Order of Australia awards are also a feature of the day. People of different races do have different physical characteristics. [16], So it was on 26 January that a landing was made at Sydney Cove and clearing of the ground for an encampment immediately began. People born in Australia of some or all European Blood have long since been called “Currency Lads” or “Currency Lasses” and they have not been called “British Subjects” since 1949 and legally since 1983. [27] However, some of the celebrations had gained an air of elitism, with the "United Australians" dinner being limited to those born in Australia. What about us natives whose ancestors may have come from Europe in the middle 1800s have no connection with Europe and have developed a native culture that includes the acceptance, use and respect of Aboriginal place names because that’s what we grew up with? People are saying “What else do you want us to do so this issue will go away and we can all get on with our lives where we all have allegiance to a nation state, Australia, and one system?” Noel Pearson wrote an interesting article in the Australian on Monday where he said – “But in the larger scheme concerning the place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander First Nations in the nation …. Patrick, your comments about cultural appropriation are sound and the belief must be resisted. There were many horrible acts committed by Aboriginal people and by Convicts and Settlers while the Australian continent was a series of British Colonies. However, during 24 January, they spotted the ships Astrolabe and Boussole, flying the French flag, at the entrance to Botany Bay; they were having as much trouble getting into the bay as the First Fleet was having getting out. The Indigenous are also exclusively adherents of a BLM, revolutionary, sovereignty-based, leftist politic — people who fight for token issues such as Invasion Day and Recognition and Makarata – mouthing slogans such as “Always was, always will be’ and “Pay the Rent”. I looked in vain for some acknowledgement of Ainslie Roberts’ influence on this series of paintings. If it is payback for years of oppression, does such a primitive form of reactionary politics do anyone any good? Like excessive LGBT claims it won’t end well, but they’ll just push until disaster strikes. Les Murray was an Indigenous Australian born in Nabiac but he married Budapest-born fellow-student Valerie Morelli in 1962 and she, like me, was not Indigenous but an Australian by Contract (by Naturalisation if you prefer) but with her own enduring love of her adopted Country. If they do go to jail or a youth centre they will claim further racist crimes are committed by their jailers, that they are over represented in these institutions, and that they should be given special consideration because of their race. For many the road from Stone Age to Iron Age was a difficult one. Really? Much of modern thinking shies away from the concept of race because of discrimination against particular races in the past. It is happening because these children have not been educated properly and their abusers will get away with it because they will claim ‘traditional factors’ and ‘cultural disadvantage’. Just listen to this  infuriating response: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar said the inquest highlighted how policies designed for Indigenous people were failing them. shall we be Australians in Paraguay He seems a quite inoffensive man. Their display included five paintings of aboriginal legends each accompanied by a text that explained the legend. No book approaching Bert Facey’s A Fortunate Life, nothing like A Room with a View or Voss or Cloud Street or ‘Boy Swallows Universe’, no poems dealing with a subject like Les Murray’s An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow — nothing bereft of black armband politics and Indigenous virtue signalling. [35] It was also held in July in subsequent years of World War I: on 28 July 1916,[35] 27 July 1917,[36] and 26 July 1918. [30] The dinner was a smaller affair than the previous year, with only 40 in attendance compared to the 160 from 1837,[29][30] and the anniversary as a whole was described as a "day for everyone". The press release http://www.tandanya.com.au/events/jacob-stengle-press-release/ tells us: Born in Renmark, South Australia, Jacob’s mother was a Ngarrindgeri woman from Raukkan (Point McLeay) and his father from Prague Czechoslovakia. But no, on closer inspection these works were revealed as the work of one Jacob Stengle, an Aboriginal artist, quite clearly of no mean talent. [22] The name "Foundation Day" persisted in local usage. An aristocratic class who, by right of birth, have special rights to their feudal lands, special rights under law, pay no taxes, and soon to have their own House of Review in Parliament, and separate identity in the Constitution. For some obscure reason I felt aggrieved on Roberts’ part. Will we see Peppa Pig depicted as a cow, perhaps, or even a tree? Plenty of aboriginals really believe that only they should live in Australia (I spoke to an Indian security guard who worked at my gf’s pharmacy who told me he’d talked with these various groups of aboriginals and got that from them directly). There are no large-scale re-enactments and the national leader's participation is focused largely on events such as the Australian of the Year Awards announcement and Citizenship Ceremonies.[54]. Some of them like us in Dublin.” We saw that here in Australia with the “convict stain” (apparently an inheritable trait) which was a big deal before and at Federation (and I suspect is still around in some quarters). The settlement was seen as necessary because of the loss of the Thirteen Colonies in North America. In another article in The Australian on the weekend of 12-13 December there was an article outlining a new policing approach in WA by not applying existing legislated laws covering all Australians to young Aboriginal offenders and instead “in the Aboriginal cultural context they are held to account in front of their community elders and their family, and it brings shame on them.” Possibly worth a try in remote communities , but urbanised kids? Because we ‘must’ not see racial, colour, or cultural differences anymore. And the ministers and the public servants responsible pass it off, hardly blinking, as a result of “white racism”. we who have no other country? If I go through Vogue’s list of ‘Essential Indigenous Australian Reading’, I start with Archie Roach’s autobiography Tell Me Why. There is a now a new race of people which has been created in Australia over the past twenty-or-so years named ‘The Indigenous’ – which is feeding off full blood Aboriginal people like a parasite feeds off its host. 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Johnston had the honour of being the first officer ashore from the First Fleet, having been carried from the landing boat on the back of convict James Ruse. You have covered all areas of concern which are dismantling the very fabric of Australian society. Of course not. These official events are presented by the National Australia Day Council, an official council or committee in each state and territory, and local committees. Aboriginal history has been handed down in ways of stories, dances, myths and legends. [28] Happy with the success of the regatta, the organisers resolved to make it an annual event. The vesting of all land in the reigning monarch King George III also dates from 7 February 1788.[18][19][20]. [76] Connected to this is the suggestion that moving the date would be seen as a significant symbolic act. Whatever mix of what could be called ‘race’ is at work, none of it creates any kind of racial unity, even if one were to apply the term. Although there was no official recognition of the colony's anniversary, with the New South Wales Almanacks of 1806 and 1808 placing no special significance on 26 January,[21] by 1808 the date was being used by the colony's immigrants, especially the emancipated convicts, to "celebrate their love of the land they lived in"[22] with "drinking and merriment". They view “The Indigenous” as invaders of their culture and the perpetrators of atrocity by virtue signal and this  now kills their children. No matter what concession is made there is always another demand, another reason why the present generation of non-Aboriginal Australians should be feeling guilty and indulge in self-loathing. 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The use of the term race, should be qualified as ‘race.’ There is no Aboriginal race and never was. [84], A January 2017 poll conducted by McNair yellowSquares for The Guardian found that 68% of Australians felt positive about Australia Day, 19% were indifferent and 7% had mixed feelings, with 6% feeling negative about Australia Day. Young innocent lives being hung by the neck until they are dead in lonely rooms in isolated Aboriginal communities after being sexually abused (for years), drinking themselves into alcoholism, petrol-sniffing and into very bad drugs. Does this WA initiative mean we can go back to our cultural practices in relation to child discipline? [67][68][69][70] Byron Shire Council became the third council to have its power to have citizenship ceremonies stripped. As a public health precaution due to COVID-19, all Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo are temporarily closed to the public. But the various campaigns are meaningless unless this or something very like it is the end campaigners have in mind. Judge us by what we have done since, condemn us for the wrongs we have committed and praise us for the good which has flowed from our toil since that date. Ancient Sparta is one of the most well-known cities in Classical Greece. [88], Prior to Australia day 2019, the conservative public policy think tank Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) released a poll that 75% of Australians wanted the date to stay, and the new right wing group Advance Australia's poll had support at 71%, although both groups asked questions about pride in being Australian prior to the headline question.[86]. In 2019 40% celebrated the day, in 2020 34%, and in 2021 it was down to 29% of over 1000 people surveyed. The formal establishment of the Colony of New South Wales did not however occur on 26 January as is commonly assumed. They mourn the primativism they have lost as if it were ‘innocence’. 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