Aussie flag, which one? make a suggestion...

The Southern Cross (without British reminders) as well as the Abo flag, that will do it for me, perfectly fine...

 

I thought you "progressives" despised tradition?

 

Aborigines never had a flag. Flags are whitey`s idea. The union jack signifies white settlement, so it`s relevant to our history, although I can take or leave the union jack, i don`t see any reason to change the flag.

 

Who says I'm a progressive, if I am what is wrong with wanting change and reform, the opposite is conservatism, leave things as they are, don't fix problems, bury our heads in the sand, don't grow, don't adapt, do do anything, hmmm Abbottism

 

So if I am a progressive, your a conservative, you want a King or Queen to rule Australia. You want the supreme ruler of our country to be not elected, but to get the job because he/she was born into the family. You don't want someone who know the real world, but someone who has been born with a sliver spoon in their mouth, never has to go to work, never wondered how they would buy bread and milk for their family, oh that's right, they can eat cake can't they.

Good one Aussie

 

Well, if you want to hang onto tradition, you are a conservate.

 

Aborigines never had a lot of things before we came, never had alcohol, never had drugs, never had banks, never had all the good things we brought, over use of land, foxes, rabbits, cacti. Never had the best land covered in bricks and concrete, never had pollution, never had ... so now because they don't want to have... don't want to have all the whities crap, they are wrong. Good one Aussie

 

LOL, well I am definitely not a conservative, but we also do not forget. There is a lot more to conservatives then sticking to tradition, it's more about not changing, we need to change or we cannot grow. If a child does not change they grow into an adult anyway, they just remain childlike, now that does sound like a conservative.

 

Ok, so you claim not to be a conservative, therefore, unless you admit to conservative leanings on the issue of "tradition", you will obviously have nothing but contempt for tradition.

We`ll take small steps here. Eventually we`ll get around to the fact that Aborigines had no concept of land ownership.

 

Well looks like you don't have much to do today either. Well you could start by bumping that record player, it seems stuck on the one track. In my family it is traditional to have a baked dinner on Sunday, lunch actually, it's also traditional for us to call lunch dinner, and dinner tea, but I digress. Traditionally the lunch was cooked in a wood fired stove, use lard as the fat to cook in, rubbed salt into the meat etc. But our family has progressed, it still follows the tradition, but we have modified it now we have better cooking facilities, more knowledge about healthy eating etc, we have progressed, but retained our traditions. Aboriginals did have a concept of land ownership, just not ours.

 

Well, I have got things to do, just lazy. Dinner, is traditionally lunch. The way I read it, way back in the old time mining boom days in Denver, Colorado, the "in" crowd were the new rich, basically bogans who`d made fortunes in a short space of time. These slobs would stay up all night drinking, and twanging their jews harps untill the wee hours, then pass out untill mid afternoon. They then shifted "dinner" time to the evening meal because it was such a socially impressive, cool, thing to do. Yep, as Rodney Rude would say, "trendsetters."
I suppose they considered themselves, real "progressives" at the time. We still have dinner around midday at our place.

Aborigines had a concept of land posession, whoever was strong enough to hold territory, had posession. That was different to the way we now see it too. Very spiritual people, asside from the "superstitious" aspect, I mean. They had a good outlook on life, didn`t clutter themselves up with baggage.

Nothing wrong with an old fashioned roast cooked in a wood fired oven either. Providing you burn it off afterwards.

 

Isn't that exactly the way we took possession of their land? Maybe we are not too different?

 

We are very, very similar. Personally, I like most of their traditional outlook on life, even though they varied immensely from region to region. We are all just products of our environment.

However, allarmingly, there are urgent, and serious problems that need to be faced, in order to work toward solutions.

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We are very, very similar. Personally, I like most of their traditional outlook on life, even though they varied immensely from region to region. We are all just products of our environment.

However, allarmingly, there are urgent, and serious problems that need to be faced, in order to work toward solutions.

 

None of those.

The flag inset like that means we are subjected to.

My flag is to have the aboriginal flag, and have the Southern Cross and Commonwealth star in the black area - the night sky - where it should be.

That's been my position for well over a decade. I wish i could draw it, because i've never seen it.

 

What's wrong with the boxing kangaroo ?

We could dress him in some deadly blackfella t shirt with all em stars around 'im.

Would make me old mate Anthony Mohammed Mundine real happy, coz its boxing and blackfella stuff, and we can feel all good and fuzzy.

Sarah Hanson Young she would wear one round her shoulders and cry and all stuff and say sorry to all them poor syllum seekers. Big Boy Abbott could have a set of D!ck Pokers made with this design on em and we could all go down Bondi and cuddle and cry.

Mmmm! Feel good.