My radiant canvas by https://padlet.com/sakarellose/p3stxnisro84 Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2018-08-02 00:35:02 UTC 2025-12-01 22:05:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png PROS / ARGUMENTS FOR KEEPING THE DATE sakarellose https://padlet.com/sakarellose/p3stxnisro84/wish/271721380 "On Australia Day we celebrate all the things we love about Australia: land, sense of fair go, lifestyle, democracy, the freedoms we enjoy but particularly our people." (NADC, website)

Australia Day is about:
- Acknowledging and celebrating every Australian
- Celebrating Aboriginal and Torrest Strait Islander people who have been here for more than 65,000 years
- A day off work with friends and family, food fun and laughter.


75% of Australians believe the day should be a time to recognise and celebrate the country's cultural diversity (NADC, website)


- Anthony Dillon, a Lecturer at Australian Catholic University believes that changing the date won't stop other issues that affect Aboriginal communities.
]]> 2018-08-02 00:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sakarellose/p3stxnisro84/wish/271721380 CONS sakarellose https://padlet.com/sakarellose/p3stxnisro84/wish/271721392 1. January 26 really means nothing to Australia as w hole ( Captain Cook actually arrived on Jan 20, 1788)

2. It means almost everything to Indigenous Australians ("many Indigenous Australians were killed in mass genocides and generations of children were stolen from their families. It's the date everything changed for the people who were on this land first and in 1938 (Rota, Popsugar website)

3. Its easy to change the date and give First Australians the acknowledgement they deserve - WE CAN KEEP THE HOLIDAY, THE BBQ AND THE FUN. All of us can play with our families and hang with our mates, if we JUST CHANGE THE DATE!

56% Of people in a recent survery said they don’t mind when we hold Australia Day, as long as we have a day to celebrate being a nation (Creative Spirits Website)


4. 49% of people in a recent survery,  agreed that Australia Day should not be on a day that is offensive to Aboriginal people  (Creative Spirits Website)

]]> 2018-08-02 00:36:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sakarellose/p3stxnisro84/wish/271721392 Bibliography: sakarellose https://padlet.com/sakarellose/p3stxnisro84/wish/271721435 Creative Spirits website: https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/australia-day-invasion-day

Dillon, A, 2017, Changing Australia Day is pointless - and there is much to celebrate: https://theconversation.com/changing-australia-day-is-pointless-and-there-is-much-to-celebrate-71010

Morgan, M, 2018, Australia Day Explained, SBS NEWS website: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/australia-day-explained-why-it-s-really-held-on-26-january-and-the-push-to-change-the-date

National Australia Day Council (NADC): https://www.australiaday.org.au/about-australia-day/

Reconciliation Australia, 2017, Should we change the date of Australia Day: https://www.reconciliation.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Rec-News-Should-We-Change-Australia-Day.pdf

Rota, G, 2018, Its Time: 3 reasons we need to change the date...", Popsugar website: https://www.popsugar.com.au/news/Why-We-Should-Change-Date-Australia-Day-44528631




]]> 2018-08-02 00:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sakarellose/p3stxnisro84/wish/271721435 My topic: sakarellose https://padlet.com/sakarellose/p3stxnisro84/wish/271732376 Should we change Australia Day or keep it how it is?]]> 2018-08-02 02:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sakarellose/p3stxnisro84/wish/271732376 BACKGROUND INFORMATION: sakarellose https://padlet.com/sakarellose/p3stxnisro84/wish/271768752 Australia day is marked on 26 January every year with a national public holiday.


A recent poll by The Australia Institute found 56 per cent of respondents didn’t mind which day Australia Day was held on, so long as there was a national day of commemoration, while 49 per cent said it shouldn’t be on a day that offended Indigenous people. (Morgan, M. Sbs News article).]]> 2018-08-02 10:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sakarellose/p3stxnisro84/wish/271768752 POEM AGAINST AUS DAY: sakarellose https://padlet.com/sakarellose/p3stxnisro84/wish/271769181
https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/arts/why-we-dont-celebrate-australia-day]]> 2018-08-02 11:00:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sakarellose/p3stxnisro84/wish/271769181 HOMEWORK: sakarellose https://padlet.com/sakarellose/p3stxnisro84/wish/271769485 Homework

At the time Captain Cook came to Australia there were three legally recognised principles that governed the taking over or acquiring new land, according to 18th Century English and International common law:
  1. conquest, by the declaration of war;
  2. treaty, negotiated after victory in war; or,
  3. occupation by absence of presence on the land by people, land belonging to no one, also known as the terra nullius principle.
Questions
  • Which of the above do you think applies to what happened in Australia?
  • In the case that you selected, what are the consequences for Aboriginal people?
  • What are the consequences for how non-Aboriginal people in Australia think about their country’s history?


Source: https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/australia-day-invasion-day#ixzz5N1AoC1DD
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