Should Australia Day Be Changed
Should Australia day be changed?
Introduction: Most Australians celebrate Australia Day as the day Australia was founded.
In contrast, Aboriginal people mourn their history and call it ‘Invasion Day’. My Three Arguments: Fairness/Justice/Equality because its fair for aboriginal people.
Rebuttal: The most common refrain against this is, ‘It’s time to move on’. Here’s the problem with that statement. If you apply the same logic to non-Aboriginal Australia, then we should stop commemorating Anzac Day. ‘It’s time to move on. The wars were years ago.’
Obviously, we’d never treat our veterans with so much disrespect, living or dead. The simple truth is we shouldn’t treat Aboriginal people that way either. If we think it’s important to still mark
Introduction: Most Australians celebrate Australia Day as the day Australia was founded.
In contrast, Aboriginal people mourn their history and call it ‘Invasion Day’. My Three Arguments: Fairness/Justice/Equality because its fair for aboriginal people.
Rebuttal: The most common refrain against this is, ‘It’s time to move on’. Here’s the problem with that statement. If you apply the same logic to non-Aboriginal Australia, then we should stop commemorating Anzac Day. ‘It’s time to move on. The wars were years ago.’
Obviously, we’d never treat our veterans with so much disrespect, living or dead. The simple truth is we shouldn’t treat Aboriginal people that way either. If we think it’s important to still mark