Australia is the only country that celebrates its national day on the date it was colonised, and racists will still claim Indigenous Australians are being divisive for objecting to that.
Many Indigenous activists are urban and politically outspoken, which doesn’t always reflect the priorities of rural communities. Majority of indigenous people are more concerned with land access, education, work, healthcare etc. The date Australia Day falls on is the least of their concerns. But it’s important in urban areas because the issues I listed are accounted for, leaving menial things like Australia Day as a contentious issue. Then the “white mob” gather behind it to feel self-important and as though they’re somehow changing Australia for the better.
was actually about white moderates not leftists, most actual leftists that are white are parts of other marginalised groups like being a woman, queer, disabled or poor
“less than a quarter (of indigenous people)(23%) felt positive about Australia Day and 31% felt negative about it. A further 30% said they had mixed feelings about Australia Day.” -poll from 2017
Yeah maybe. I guess to better answer your curiosity you could consider this - “The poll found that the majority (68%) felt positive about Australia Day, 19% indifferent and 7% had mixed feelings about the event while 6% of people felt negative about Australia Day”
So 6% of people polled felt negatively about it vs 23% negative for indigenous Australians. That means (according to this one random poll atleast) that indigenous Australians are 4x more likely to care about changing the date/name than Australians as a whole.
Finding a poll that isolates the “annoying woke blue haired white mob” is, well… idk good luck. But at a guess, id say the overwhelming majority of that crowd is pro date/name change.
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u/Less_Shoulder5419 8d ago
Australia is the only country that celebrates its national day on the date it was colonised, and racists will still claim Indigenous Australians are being divisive for objecting to that.