Today is Australia Day, the 224th anniversary of when we started as a nation. It has been a proud history of nation building, achievement and wealth. An empty continent with nothing going for it has been transformed into the envy of the world.
You would think that such a day would bring out the best in people, that we would all celebrate and be happy. For the most part, that is what happens. But there is a very small minority of moronic leftists and politically correct stooges - aided and abetted by a compliant media - who try and gatecrash the party with stupid, moronic nonsense and idiotic, pea-brained static. Almost every year we have to put up with this crap and the public are increasingly getting fed up with it.
This year the leftist, PC brigade wrung their hands over "racism" (inverted commas intentional). An academic in Perth went to a fireworks display, did a survey and concluded that people who fly the Australian National Flag from their cars are "racist". Many agreed with the statements that people should fit in or go back to where they came from. Also the statement that people not born here are not as Australian as native born Aussies, as well as other quite reasonable propositions.
Pardon me, but I also agree with all those sentiments. What's wrong with it? Nothing.
Academics have always hated Australia Day. They look down their noses at displays of Aussie pride and think there is something wrong with it.
The media lapped all this up as usual, as well as the silly speech by Dr Charlie Teo claiming that Australia is a "racist" country. Pathetic, absolutely pathetic.
The other thing that seems to happen either on or around Australia Day is that one of the left wing broadsheets like The Canberra Times prints a letter or article calling the day Invasion Day and propagating now discredited garbage about what supposedly happened to Aborigines after the arrival of Europeans. I can still remember on Bicentennial Day in 1988, whilst other newspapers had green and gold on the front page and headlines like "Aussies Join the Fun" and "Our Big Day", The Canberra Times had a stark black and white front page with the large banner headline "Aborigines All Set to Protest". It was a disgrace.
Today is not a day for the Left. They have dealt their way out of consideration and are now irrelevant. The public have abandoned their stupid, nonsensical nonsense and they are now a redundant political rump whose time has come and gone. Unfortunately they have the upper hand in Canberra at the moment and are still extremely powerful.
This will be the second last Australia Day under a Labor government, and the shame of the past four years is slowly drawing to a close. We can celebrate our national day today in the knowledge that normalcy and decency is only around 18 months away when Labor/The Greens will be consigned to opposition for a very long time. Then we really would have come of age as a sophisticated, first world democracy.
