aceulant!

Brilliant!!!!

So proud to see some truth & courage in your work you guys, as an Indigenous woman I love it & as an artist & educator I love it.

hey check out this spat n loogie (sydney art duo) video from 2006 - spatnloogie.com/nationaltreasures.html

Good one! I call Australia home but some how this day is not for me....why has there still been little compensation (and this doesn't necessarily mean money) for indigenous people? How ironic that this australian anthem asks ships to come back to the shore, what so they can detain these peoples?

Great, grim relief from all the celebratory assimilationist festivals on the 26th - especially well demonstrated by the PM on the 7.30 Report, Jan 28th:

KEVIN RUDD: I think anyone who's mindful of Australia's immigration history knows that there are always times in our history when some of these frictions bubble to the surface and then they are dealt with often within our uniquely Australian way, often round a barbecue. The early days of settlement, the English were very suspicious of the Irish. Your mob came here, the O'Briens.

KERRY O'BRIEN: I think the O'Briens came voluntarily, but go on.

KEVIN RUDD: Oh, well, unlike our mob who didn't. But, the English were suspicious of the Irish. You roll on a century, you come to the post-War migration boom. The Anglo-Celtic block were concerned about those coming from southern Europe - the Greeks and the Italians. That all sorted itself out within a generation. Come the '70, and '80s, the European block were concerned about the arrival of those from South-East Asia, and more recently from East Asia and South Asia. That's sorting itself through and by and large has sorted itself through. You see, this has happened at various points of our history. And in all settlement countries around the world - the United States, the great melting pot, Canada, New Zealand - we have it within our wit and wisdom and historical experience to do this well and I believe we'll continue to do so in the future.