Australia Day .... Invasion Day ..... we went to the lake and it was a really beaut day .... the water was perfect ..... but still too cold for April! Kaylia did continual swims to the pontoon and back to Naomi. In the afternoon the duo went into the city for the fireworks while we crashed.
..... and in the news, Matt Chun says :
"Celebrating January 26 at best trivialises - and at worst glorifies -
the invasion of this continent, declaration of terra nullius, massacre
and attempted genocide of its 30,000 year old indigenous population.
"It
is a day spent reveling in the mindless perpetuation of old myths and
the clumsy fabrication of new ones. It is no accident that 'Australia
Day' has been so effectively co-opted by an extremist minority as a
thinly veiled anniversary of white privilege."
Spot on!
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