Shard

What about calling the day something in the indigenous language, would that appease the critics? Like when Ayer's Rock became Uluru.

carcajou

They already call it "Invasion Day." I think naming it after something Aboriginal would cause them to try and burn down Twitter.

Beoz

One Nation Day? Fits with the theme of bringing many cultures together. Kind of sends a FU to the indigenous people who want all other cultures out.

Shard

Something like that or whatever name the aborigines used to calculate the land. Has to be in their language though (not English).

BritInParis

spuddyo

Somebody will be trying to ban Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns next in case it upsets a few folk.

Beoz

In their language? Why? For starters, I doubt there was ever one aboriginal language spoken across Australia given the nature of their nomadic existence and the vastness of Australia. Secondly English is the spoken language in Australia, its tested to become a citizen. English is a done deal. Why would you want to keep trying to bow to aboriginal hatred of other cultures? I can understand if those from 1788 were still alive and had a hard time when white settlers moved in, but none of them are alive now. Its time for those who use history to stamp their mark to move on and that means moving on together in unity like all cultures in Australia are expected to do.

One culture should not have a special say or special privileges.

Beoz

No doubt. Or better still, all cultural and religious days will become public holidays.

Just like Malaysia where nothing gets done.

the troubadour

What out dated thinking. Productivity does not depend on the number of days worked but how much is accomplished during the days worked.
But business organisations do attempt to pass this off as fact. If that is the only script you've read I suppose ignorance may pass as an excuse.


As for Malaysia, no afraid wrong there as well. Some 47% of Malaysians took work home with them more than three times a week compared to 43% globally.


While on that track, another 15% regularly work more than another 11 hours per week compared to 10% globally.


One should not forget the positive benefits to society in celebrating all holidays important to the different religions and races that inhabit that country either. Impossible to put a price on good will.


AS for holidays, well more than average, but not the most. Malaysia nationally has some 14 days of paid holidays. This pales compared to Lebanon with 17 days, and keeps rather good company with workaholic nations like Japan, which comes in at 15....a whole day more than Malaysia and equal to Spain ..also 14.


While NSW gets a miserable 8 days. Hardly seems fair for those over worked New South Welshmen taking into consideration all the other stresses they are forced to labour under.

Beoz

So on one hand you try to convince us that despite all the Malaysian public holidays they work a lot of extra hours, and on the other hand you try to convince us NSW with its smaller public holiday count are workaholics.

Very contradictory.

Anyhow, bring on more public holidays. I will make money either way. Those poor buggers like yourself tied to the hourly rate won't.

the troubadour

Not contradictory, just requires a bit of reflection, struggle as it may be. Simple language for you. While Malaysians do indeed have more public holidays this does not reflect on productively, which falls just behind Singapore. Meanwhile they have plenty more time to enjoy what is important in life. That being the activity away from desk.


NSW having few holidays on a world wide scale. They could indeed do with far more. Bring in Chinese New Year, Day of Remembrance of the Dead, Hindu and other holidays. Why not? It is not the hours chained to a desk that should count.


Work was not to long ago the way to a means. Not the grand total and means in itself.


NSW with Sydney in particular is indeed a workaholic or on the other hand an over worked city, for those not under employed, through no choice of their own, rather necessary for many to pay that over inflated real estate, or those with self aggrandisement issues convincing themselves that they are invaluable to proceedings around them.

Beoz

You must hate your job. And it pays so poorly. How do you get up in the morning?

We just earn more money in Sydney. Happy days.

Beoz

Nice bunch.

Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance - WAR

In response to the attacks on WAR members and the call to burn Australia to the ground at the Naarm Abolish Australia Day Rally, we would like to issue the following statement:

**** Australia.
**** your land theft, your child stealing and your state sanctioned murders.
**** your governments, your military and your police.
**** your concentration camps dressed up as correctional facilities and immigration detention centres.
**** your economy, your greed and your cult of the almighty dollar.
**** your poisoning of water, your wholesale destruction of land and your pollution of our atmosphere.
**** your language forced upon us and violently attempting to replace our very own.
**** your white supremacy, your patriarchy and your capitalism.
**** your flag, your anthem and your precious national day.
WAR will not rest until we burn this entire rotten settler colony called Australia, illegally and violently imposed on stolen Aboriginal land at the expense of the blood of countless thousands, to the ****ing ground, until every corrupt and illegal institution of white supremacist, patriarchal, capitalist settler colonial power forced upon us is no more. We will not rest until we build a society that cares for and honours the Earth, our mother, that respects the interconnectedness of all beings, that is founded on our sovereignty and responsibility to this country and the people who live on it, and that offers a place of safety and prosperity for our people and for all those oppressed and excluded by the current systems of power - refugees, people of colour, LGBTQIA people, poor people, disabled people.
Abolish Australia, not just Australia Day

the troubadour

Money, money, money. I've an idea take up a spot of Zen and attempt to alleviate your apparent fear of what I can only judge, as being a return to being poor.


Oh,I please myself, in the city of cool. So glad to be free of the concerns that you carry, labour with, on your back. It appears quite a load.


But I'm not getting into discussions with you are irrelevant matters to the nature of the thread. By doing so, it dilutes the thread, as to make it unreadable, disjointed and not of general interest.


Do feel free to start a thread on money or aspirations or whatever else in that increasingly, barely liveable post code you find yourself enslaved in.

Beoz

You are the one who keeps raising the topic of money, complaining that you never have enough.

Do you ever see me complaining about being strapped for cash?

Why would I need to raise a thread on money? I have more than enough for my needs and you do a fine enough job of either creating threads about money or turning a thread into one.

See post #54 on this thread

Oh see this post. http://britishexpats.com/forum/austr...tralia-908517/