Celebrate January 26, the day when two worlds collided and the colonial era began. That is the genesis of modern Australia and it is full of great stories
Thanks for your kind comment - also, perhaps i was a bit muddy in my writing. The colonists experimenting with the Cow Pock came after Jenner, so likely they had heard about it and were trying to copy.
But the variolation came centuries before Jenner. He just did it with cowpox instead of smallpox.
Good write up, but it is sad to still see people confusing Australia Day with colonial times, IT IS NOT.
Australia Day, 26th January 1948, was the granting of “Australian Citizenship” to Australians so we could travel on an Australian passport rather than as an English Subject.
"On 26 January 1949, the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 became law. It was the first time that the term ‘Australian citizen’ had been used in any Australian legislation, including the Australian Constitution. Although the Act has been changed since 1948, it is still the basis for how a person becomes an Australian citizen.”
Wikipedia is INCORRECT and labels Australia Day as the Invasion Date. (typical for Wikipedia now sadly, just a globalist propaganda tool.
that's an interesting take on it, that I haven't heard before. I will still celebrate 26 January for the date that Governor Arthur Phillip planted the British Flag and started the first colony that would become Sydney. For this reason: it was the meeting of two worlds that became the birth of modern Australia. It is the genesis point.
It wasn't an "invasion" at all, it was a settlement colonisation. But some very evil people have been lying to children for so long, and the history is so far back in the past with nobody living who remembers it first hand, that they've been believed.
The last of the Pintupi walked out of the Western Desert in 1984. A whole load of Aboriginal people walked in out of the wild and traded the bush for living in houses on cattle stations in return for droving and domestic work, and on missions.
People are lying to children - and to Aboriginal people - and claiming it was all genocide all the time. Really! It's so evil to do this. There was plenty of co-operation and a very complex story which varied vastly from place to place and tribe to tribe.
In the Northern Territory, which is full of mosquitoes, Aboriginal people devised an ingenious way to sleep at night. They'd build a wooden platform over the camp fire and sleep with the smoke rising around them. That kept the mosquitoes away. But what would you rather do? Sleep on that platform every night? Or in a bed in a house with running water and no mosquitoes?
Well, so did they.
I think the Arts Funding is to blame for this. No more funding for divisive BS. It's just encouraging worse and worse with each passing generation exaggerating grievances until they are distorted far away from truth. Give the arts funding to other people to tell different stories that are also true and unheard.
I am 70 years of age with a good memory, and I still recall when we were taught ‘HISTORY’ in schools.
There was NO official ‘Australian Citizen’ until 1948.
January 26th was never about planting the british flag until after 1973 when it was hijacked by the woke, and now it is even ensconced in Wikipedia, just to prove we are really stuck in a time warp, our Ground Hog day is 1984!
I love how entertainingly that early Gazette tried to write. Total tabloid. Nobody could have survived! Oh - but - nobody was injured. LOL
Thanks for your kind comment - also, perhaps i was a bit muddy in my writing. The colonists experimenting with the Cow Pock came after Jenner, so likely they had heard about it and were trying to copy.
But the variolation came centuries before Jenner. He just did it with cowpox instead of smallpox.
Good stuff. Real history is so much more interesting than the pap currently being peddled by the Clover Moores of this world.
Good write up, but it is sad to still see people confusing Australia Day with colonial times, IT IS NOT.
Australia Day, 26th January 1948, was the granting of “Australian Citizenship” to Australians so we could travel on an Australian passport rather than as an English Subject.
"On 26 January 1949, the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 became law. It was the first time that the term ‘Australian citizen’ had been used in any Australian legislation, including the Australian Constitution. Although the Act has been changed since 1948, it is still the basis for how a person becomes an Australian citizen.”
Wikipedia is INCORRECT and labels Australia Day as the Invasion Date. (typical for Wikipedia now sadly, just a globalist propaganda tool.
that's an interesting take on it, that I haven't heard before. I will still celebrate 26 January for the date that Governor Arthur Phillip planted the British Flag and started the first colony that would become Sydney. For this reason: it was the meeting of two worlds that became the birth of modern Australia. It is the genesis point.
It wasn't an "invasion" at all, it was a settlement colonisation. But some very evil people have been lying to children for so long, and the history is so far back in the past with nobody living who remembers it first hand, that they've been believed.
The last of the Pintupi walked out of the Western Desert in 1984. A whole load of Aboriginal people walked in out of the wild and traded the bush for living in houses on cattle stations in return for droving and domestic work, and on missions.
People are lying to children - and to Aboriginal people - and claiming it was all genocide all the time. Really! It's so evil to do this. There was plenty of co-operation and a very complex story which varied vastly from place to place and tribe to tribe.
In the Northern Territory, which is full of mosquitoes, Aboriginal people devised an ingenious way to sleep at night. They'd build a wooden platform over the camp fire and sleep with the smoke rising around them. That kept the mosquitoes away. But what would you rather do? Sleep on that platform every night? Or in a bed in a house with running water and no mosquitoes?
Well, so did they.
I think the Arts Funding is to blame for this. No more funding for divisive BS. It's just encouraging worse and worse with each passing generation exaggerating grievances until they are distorted far away from truth. Give the arts funding to other people to tell different stories that are also true and unheard.
I am 70 years of age with a good memory, and I still recall when we were taught ‘HISTORY’ in schools.
There was NO official ‘Australian Citizen’ until 1948.
January 26th was never about planting the british flag until after 1973 when it was hijacked by the woke, and now it is even ensconced in Wikipedia, just to prove we are really stuck in a time warp, our Ground Hog day is 1984!