The Founding of Australia by Captain Arthur Phillip RN, Sydney Cove, Jan 26, 1788, by Algernon Talmage, 1937. State Library NSW
By Alison Bevege
January 26 is not just Australia Day, it was the first settlement of Sydney.
The First Fleet set up camp in Sydney Cove on 26 January, 1788. Eleven ships of British colonists and convicts hacked the beginnings of a modern city out of sandstone and bush.
You would think City of Sydney Council might do some small thing to commemorate this, but there’s not an Australian flag or a Captain Arthur Phillip in sight.
The Council has given $2 million to celebrate Chinese New Year over 19 days of festivities instead.
The Council calls it “Sydney Lunar Festival” as if it were home-grown instead of a Chinese cultural tradition more than 3500 years old, possibly emanating from the Shang Dynasty.
“For Sydney Lunar (Lunatic) Festival 2025, the City of Sydney has committed around $2 million to support the delivery of the 19-day festival. The funds include all aspects of a festival of this scale including: decorations, artwork, promotions, activities, events, crowd control and security,” a spokesman said via email.
Everyone loves a spectacle: the lion dances are great, the night markets popular, there’s Chinese balloon art for the kids. There’s almost three weeks of taxpayer-funded spectaculars starting January 30.
But shouldn’t we be seeing some public celebration of our colonial heritage, too?
No. City of Sydney Council is marking January 26 – with the Yabun Aboriginal festival.
Normal Australians not welcome.
The tone of Yabun is shown by the Land Back book launch, described as: “Aboriginal land rights recognition in 1983 came after nearly 200 years of violent colonial dispossession and the near-complete loss of land. For over 40 years, NSW Aboriginal people have worked to restore their Country and people.”
The Council allocated $840,000 (over four years) for the Gadigal Information Service Aboriginal Corporation (who runs Redfern’s Koori Radio) to put Yabun on January 26.
The Aboriginal industry sucks more than $40 billion annually from government yet it will put out its hand at every opportunity.
The Yabun Festival has a stack of other sponsors including the NSW Government, several sub-agencies of the NSW Government and the Federal Government.
They are all pouring your tax dollars into an event that ties celebrating Aboriginal culture with demonising British Colonial heritage – as if you have to hurt one people to build up another. As if we can’t celebrate both.
They also sell merchandise.
You hear a lot about “Welcome to Country” (this is MY land, you’re a visitor), “Survival Day” (we survived YOU), and the hostile “Invasion Day”.
We are not being taught to celebrate Aboriginal culture. We are being taught to hate our British colonial foundations.
We have the Invasion Day protest and march on January 26. Amnesty has issued an activist toolkit condemning any celebration on that day.
Colonial heritage is now only ignored or demonised on its founding day. Almost every year now, a Captain Cook statue is vandalised – and he wasn’t even on the First Fleet.
Taxpayers can expect no relief from a Liberal government either. Labor and Liberal are joined at the hip when it comes to blackfellas and nearly everything else.
Trump is restructuring America it’s time to start on its poor cousin, Australia.
There I was vainly hoping that the pedestrian crossings in the Sydney CBD might at least have been painted in Aussie colours for Australia Day.
Clover – just a wretched old communist doing what communists do
Clover Moore and her mates don’t have an original thought in their collective heads. Like trendy kids, they just play follow the leader…whatever is currently in fashion and who can stand out as the “wokest”! Air-heads! And that goes for all of the Council’s and big companies that promote un-Australian trends.
American Indians call themselves ‘first nation’ people. The people here, trying to cause division among Australians seem to have a bigger percentage of western genes in them than they do aboriginal genes. These stirrers are just lefty, wokeys after more free money and more land and they DO NOT speak on behalf of all aboriginals. Using the settlement of whites over 200 years ago is a poor and stupid reason for causing division. “Who is hurting NOW?” Our ancestors were brought out in chains so where is our reparation for what great-great-great-great grandfather and grandmother endured. wake up and use common-sense.
Happy Australia Day everyone. (and yes, that includes you ‘wokeys’)
“There will come a day when the likes of Clover, the GG (Albo’s pick) and the Vic GG are banished on their brooms …”
And who is going to send them on their Bon Voyage? Will it be in this lifetime or the next?
No point in eliminating the symptoms unless we eliminate the cause. They’ll just keep springing back to screw us every time.
The cause I dare say is very much helped by our popular silence, acquiescence and inaction. For a start, we’ll never get rid of the elephant in the room until we actually acknowledge its presence. Turning a blind eye simply won’t cut the mustard.
There will come a day when the likes of Clover, the GG (Albo’s pick) and the Vic GG are banished on their brooms and the Vic Premier and her treacherous lot of parasitical head nodders are removed for good and never stain this nation again.
Tony said – “… I’d like to know how Clover Moore gets re-elected time after time…”
Tony, Tony, Tony – come on, Dude, get with the script.
Maybe re-watch the Soprano series, there’s probably a few hints buried in there.
I’d like to know how Clover Moore gets re-elected time after time.
daviddd2 said – “… What’s this nonsense about “First Nations”?”
Well we can suppose in the scheme of things that makes all those little pygmies that the First Nation hunted down, speared and clubbed and generally beat up on, killed, cooked and ate to extinction must be the “Zeroth Nation”.
Hey, at least they had the decency to cook them – that’s a sign of a civilised society, right?
And perish the thought that someone preceded the pygmies, how we gonna fit THEM into the order of “nations”? Are we getting into imaginary numbers now?
And just BTW, folks, don’t fret about it, because the “First Nations” peoples are set to become the MAJORITY in short order, because AnAL and the Kirribilli Bumbandits are shipping in TRUCKLOADS of them, by the MILLIONS in fact, seeing as how there’s no shortage on the supply side.
Yeah, that’s right, I went there folks, so what are ya gonna do about it? Soon enough whatever you try to do won’t matter anyway, because YOU’LL be gone. Be as politically correct as you like, because you’re going to be just a notably vacant politically correct footnote in the history of the Australian continent.
Sum Tin Wong said – “… If she can’t celebrate Australia day, the day and the people that GAVE HER HER JOB then SACK HER!”
Sorry Dude, I have to respectfully and genteely disagree with you right here.
The penalty for Treason is DEATH. The proper therapy for this Luciferian witch involves a suitably repurposed lamp post, both as the wages for her sins against Australia and as a message to the rest of her baby-eating coven.
Of course, all done nice and legal-like, and only in the best POSSIBLE taste. Because after all, we’re here to help.
What’s this nonsense about “First Nations”? Nationhood is an 18-19th century European political concept.
Some arsehole has planted the notion of “First Nations” in Australia to refer to our Aboriginal tribes. Mostly because it captures the imagination of the marchers protesting against “Invasion Day” who happen to be predominantly of European descent. And it implies “political sovereignty” which will facilitate the “Treaty” Agenda and the great Australian carve up.
Nothing like using fake language and terminology to push an agenda to a deluded captive audience. It should be laughed out of town.
All we Australians and our relatives and the previous wonderful immigrants who loved Australia and we have all broken our backs working hard for a lifetime for OUR COUNTRY that we loved and these alleged Treacherous/Treasonous Mongrels in power, who have hijacked our country and everything about it and they have just about destroyed Australia.
Stand up now ALL people before it really is too late.
that is fucking treason
Well we can all see where her loyalties lay.
If she can’t celebrate Australia day, the day and the people that GAVE HER HER JOB then SACK HER!!! She’s a traitor to her own country and her own race.
I’m so sick of all these lefties.
Sack her!, we need patriotic decent people to do the job!
After years of being subjected to the little Woke virtue-signalling paragraph ( you know, the “Acknowledgement” one ) at the bottom of every email I received from fellow Government employees I decided it was time I created my own….here it is below..please use it wherever you can make an impact…I include it at the bottom of all my emails..
We recognise the British colonial heritage of Australia. We acknowledge the fortitude and sacrifice of the first European settlers, and extend our support to all who seek to respect, protect and unite all Australians as one nation.
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PPL need to learn the wording aboriginal like abnormal is made up of 2 words ab = non, original = original & normal = normal put them together and the words show the true meaning non original, non normal. 1st nations ppl = wrong Australia became a nation for the 1st time when the 1900 constitution was implemented on the 1st jan 1901 if they are not recognised in it how can they be 1st nations anything ? everything is in the wording learn it so you are not deceived by it.
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All the fools just keep voting for the same useful tools! Look like a lot of fools will need a cracker up the clacker before they’ll wake up.
Gotta wonder which part of “Our Country is Being Torn to Pieces” they don’t understand.
Divisiveness and separatism is being shaped as our future. Our present is already witnessing treachery and deceit, mostly grubbernment and corporate.
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