We
celebrate every culture in our multicultural society but what it means
to be "Australian", because we still don't know what that means. The
only true Australians are the Aboriginal people, but their renewed
cultural vigour has isolated them more from the rest of us. No matter
how interested or knowledgeable we might be about Aboriginal Cultures,
without direct descent, even slight, and acceptance by particular
language groups we are not and can not be Aboriginal. Australia
Day celebrates the start of British Law and Culture on this land but
that has been devalued by the misguided Republicans. We still have a
third-world economy, based on primary products, and the sports and arts
at which we excel are mostly international affairs. Worst perhaps is
the way we still try to obliterate the natural landscape, poisoning the
endemic wildflowers from our suburbs and plant colonial, British
gardens, ironically sometimes with hybrid "natives". Despite all that,
it is still the best place in the world to live, even with pesky,
interfering governments.
From
a giant Aussie picnic to a street food festival and synchronized
fireworks display, Australia Day in Victoria promises a diverse program.
theage.com.au
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