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Alleged writer and Crikey politics editor. These days mainly here for the greyhounds.

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crikey.com.au
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    Bernard Keane‏Verified account @BernardKeane Sep 24

    Scott Morrison, from the seat of his ride-on lawnmower in the burbs, thinks the "problem" many of us have with Australia Day is that it doesn't celebrate indigenous Australians enough, not realising in fact that it celebrates their dispossession and slaughter.

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      2. Tom Ravlic FIPA‏ @TRAVLIC Sep 24
        Replying to @BernardKeane

        Australia's birth certificate is its constitution and the day to commemorate that is January 1.

        6 replies 5 retweets 19 likes
      3. Bevie‏ @beviesplace Sep 24
        Replying to @TRAVLIC @BernardKeane

        There's the issue. Many folk just want a day off, rather than actually celebrate our nation. If we can't have Jan 1, then why not the 30th July, the date people first actually thought about it. It's in the middle of the school year so kids can actually learn real Aus history toopic.twitter.com/8Vdm6al9eK

        3 replies 10 retweets 14 likes
      4. Tom Ravlic FIPA‏ @TRAVLIC Sep 24
        Replying to @beviesplace @BernardKeane

        I'm holding firm to January 1. It is when we entire country became the Federation - the national jigsaw we have represented in the parliament. @BernardKeane - your thoughts?

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      2. Sophie‏ @merryboffin Sep 24
        Replying to @BernardKeane

        I’m descended from Matthew Everingham #firstfleet This date is just English imperialism. People need to check their ancestry. Irish potato famine? Highland clearings? Most of our people washed up here because of English cruelty and injustice, why celebrate that?

        3 replies 3 retweets 18 likes
      3. Sophie‏ @merryboffin Sep 24
        Replying to @merryboffin @BernardKeane

        Over half of indigenous people are married to ‘white’ aussies (By comparison in the USA only 8% of African Americans are in mixed relationships) There is a lot of love out there for indigenous people and culture. Provoking all this racist rhetoric hurts and demeans us all.

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      2. Psyberus‏ @Psyberus Sep 24
        Replying to @BernardKeane

        According the LNP, it was the day that Zombie Captain Cook first set foot ashore, 9 years after his death. The LNP need to learn more about history, and spend less time watching Pirates of the Caribbean and undead pirates...

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      1. Matthew Wakefield‏ @genomematt Sep 24
        Replying to @BernardKeane

        I try and explain it as like having a festive celebration of German and Japanese culture in Australia on ANZAC Day. Sure modern German and Japanese culture is removed from the WWs but it would still be insensitive.

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      2. honesthistory.net.au‏ @honesthistory1 Sep 24
        Replying to @BernardKeane

        Puffery of Oz Day links to Anzackery & Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi; tip of iceberg of Ocker nationalism. Yet, 1788 invasion and its consequences deserve far more of our attention than do the invasion of 1915, military ventures since, & all that sentimental chest-thumping.

        2 replies 2 retweets 12 likes
      3. Peter Chambers‏ @Wombatfinance Sep 25
        Replying to @honesthistory1 @BernardKeane

        Lots of hatred there mate. Who cares if people don't think deeply about 1788. Time to move one but your type needing a platform will always seek gratification for senseless words.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4.  🛑I. Can't. Breathe. 🖤 💛 ❤ ✊🏽‏ @RachelQuayle08 Sep 25
        Replying to @Wombatfinance @honesthistory1 @BernardKeane

        Dear me, Peter. It sounds like "your type" always need a platform too. Didn't you come here to seek gratification for your opinion? Don't whitesplain #FirstNations people. You have no idea how we feel.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Peter Chambers‏ @Wombatfinance Sep 25
        Replying to @RachelQuayle08 @honesthistory1 @BernardKeane

        Strange tweet. What is our First Nation? You have no idea of my heritage. I believe in one country one people & accept the originals were here tens of thousands of years ago & they have special mention.

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      2. Rob Messenger‏ @RobMessenger2 Sep 24
        Replying to @BernardKeane

        Australia was first invaded about 60K years ago - then 800 years ago Melanesian people invaded far north Australia - then 260 years ago European people invaded - then in 1942 Japanese people had a crack & European, Aboriginal & TSI came together #auspolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twnp_ESBzdM …

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      2. Chris Johnson‏ @seearjay Sep 24
        Replying to @BernardKeane

        #Morrison's conversations are with One Nation supporters - presumably the rest of are meant to tune out.

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      3. Benjamin Roberts‏ @bennoba Sep 24
        Replying to @seearjay @BernardKeane

        Fun Fact; In places like Darwin, Alice Springs and Cairns, indigenous and white Australians celebrate Australia Day standing together. All this change the date nonsense comes from inner city activists in places like Sydney and Melbourne.

        0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
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      2. Joanna Mendelssohn‏ @oldlillipilli Sep 24
        Replying to @BernardKeane

        It’s also the day of the culmination of Great Britain’s official policy of dumping its poverty stricken underclass at what it saw as the end of the earth #NotMyAustraliaDay #auspol

        1 reply 3 retweets 8 likes
      3. Metta Bhavana‏ @MettaBhavana1 Sep 25
        Replying to @oldlillipilli @BernardKeane

        Prior to this, the British had dumped many more convicts in the American colonies than they ever sent to Australia. This policy of transportation was a much forgotten, early provocation for revolution. If the Brits had won, Aus wouldn't exist.#4thofJuly

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      4. Joanna Mendelssohn‏ @oldlillipilli Sep 25
        Replying to @MettaBhavana1 @BernardKeane

        You’re right about American resentment about convicts but a) more came to Australia b) those to the Americas were organised as slave labour then most became an underclass c) the proportion of convicts in NSW + Tasmania meant that for many years they dominated the population

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      5. Joanna Mendelssohn‏ @oldlillipilli Sep 25
        Replying to @oldlillipilli @MettaBhavana1 @BernardKeane

        When my children went to school in a largely Black part of Chicago, the principal was surprised they were proud of their convict heritage as in the USA, especially the south, this is still seen as a matter of shame

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