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today is.... - CRAZY-HORSE - 26-01-2012
...a holiday here in Australia to mark "Australia Day"....
today marks the day back in 1788 when Captain Cook landed upon these shores and declared Australia a British Colony and set up our first British settlement in Botany Bay,Sydney.
local Aboriginals refer to today as "invasion day", why i dont know, as they never had a "nation" back then...just numerous tribes of mainly nomadic wanderers!
the English werent the first to arrive here though, here in West Australia about four hundred miles north of Perth a Dutch Explorer named Dirk Hartog landed here some two hundred years prior to Cook, there are also numerous Chinese,Egyption references to Australia that date back several thousand years....
today is.... - Music Head - 26-01-2012
Happy Australia Day mate
Invasion Day does sound pretty cool
Came about with the advent of political correctness no doubt
today is.... - CRAZY-HORSE - 26-01-2012
yep...the political correctness brigade made that crap up....
today is.... - SteveO - 26-01-2012
Have a very Happy Australia Day, mate !
today is.... - Jerome - 30-01-2012
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:yep...the political correctness brigade made that crap up....
As they did everywhere else as well..........
today is.... - ReggieT - 03-02-2012
A few days late, but Happy Australia Day! How do you normally celebrate it?