The article discusses the ongoing controversy surrounding Australia Day and the date's significance for Indigenous Australians. It criticizes the lack of progress in changing the date and highlights the insensitive attitudes reflected in recent polls. The piece also addresses the recent booing of Novak Djokovic by Australian spectators during his injury exit at the Australian Open, condemning the behavior as unsportsmanlike and a departure from Australia's traditional sportsmanship.
. Please include your home address and telephone number. No attachments, please include your letter in the body of the email.On this 26th of January I am grateful to live in a country where we can have friends of diverse cultures, and many of us do. May they and all their families be safe and feel secure. May the few people who benefit from spreading fear and division fail utterly, obviously and embarrassingly.
However, the issue is that if the date is changed, how will First Nations people be able to continue to remind us of the historical injustice and ongoing social, educational, occupational and economic inequity that they endure even in these current, supposedly enlightened, times?Peter Dutton, when insisting on keeping Australia Day as January 26, is quoted as saying that “we should be respectful of everybody”.
I suspect they have no real knowledge of the nuances in a tennis match and the history of those competing. Sure, spectators in bygone days would have been disappointed, but they accorded the injured players a quiet respect.
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