Off Topic It’s Australia Day

Just bought it, thanks for the recommendation

 

Some years ago I was visiting Melbourne.
My Daughter took me to the city centre and feft me at a Shopping Mall as they were holding a 'sorry Treaty' exhibition. She knew that the topic intersted me.
( the Sorry Treaty was an atempt to get The Government to appologise for the previous policy of removing Aborigine children, from their comunities and placing them with mostly religious white organisations).

Yes, It was interesting to me but not to many others, at least during my visits.
Few Australians seemed to be aware of the subject and fewer cared.
And I can understand that, as apologising for past generations 'sins' seems a pointless gesture to me.
Correcting them would be more worthwhile.

But Australia has somethinof a history of racial dicrimination.
Their colour bar exited till the early seventies when Labour Prime Minister Geoff Whitlam kicked it into touch.

And the way some of the early settlers treated their convict 'slaves' and the Aborigines was well up to US Slave Platation standards.

So, IF Australia Day puts some focus on the past AND some stress on putting past mistakes right, then this has to be a good thing.

 

Well this is ****ing troubling...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...le-attack-right-wing-extremists-Victoria.html

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Spotted near me this weekend.

The world is just ****ed. Views are getting louder and more extreme on both sides.

That's pulling us back into the 1950s... in the southern states of America. Burning a ****ing cross and pulling nazi salutes?

Calling themselves patriots. Scum.Racism is definitely alive and well.

These ****s have links to the Christchurch mosque shootings too.

 

No place for it in society. hate everyone equally is my motto

That being said i'd previously thought the scariest thing in the Grampains was the Giant Koala at Dadswell Bridge

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It's about the only koala I've seen in the Grampians for a fair while. There were plenty in Halls Gap years ago.