Also a massive number of Irish migrants brought the troubles with them. FFS we have the orange order etc here to this day and people don't kick up a fuss about that.

It takes time for people to move on from these issues, look at the offspring of many Croatians and serbians or Greeks and Masodonians, they're still carrying around their problems as much as any person from an Afgani, Persian or other Islamic middle Eastern background.
I work with plenty of New immigrants and refugees and honestly, the ACA TT ones are few and far between the ones that actually want to be Australian and Asimilate into our culture (geez I hate that term).

I work with plenty of New immigrants and refugees and honestly, the ACA TT ones are few and far between the ones that actually want to be Australian and Asimilate into our culture (geez I hate that term). become functional and constructive members of our society

Those aren't the problem. I concur with that. Majority of Australia's populace has emigrated here in the last century or so. The problem is people bringing their own problems here.

When is Australia Day?

I don't believe in Love it or Leave it and I don't think we're full, I think we have plenty of room for anyone who genuinely wants a better life like my Father and grand Father did.

Eureka flag to become our national flag!

Our day of national pride is second only to New Year's when it comes to the number of punches thrown by goons.
Last year 109 assaults were reported to police on Australia Day and 122 were reported on the same day in 2011

Flag is our greatest Australian divide

by:
JESSICA MARSZALEK From:
News Limited Network January 23, 2013
12:00AM

FOUR in 10 Australians think the flag needs to be reclaimed as a symbol of unity
And only a third of people would vote yes if another referendum to establish a republic were held today.
A Galaxy Poll of more than 1000 people, conducted exclusively for News Limited in the run up to Australia Day, reveals how some feel the flag has slipped as an icon of togetherness.


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Forty per cent said there was "a need to reclaim the Australian flag as a symbol of unity", while 33 per cent said there was no need. The remainder were uncommitted.
Sydney University researcher Ben Moffitt, who wrote a thesis on the Cronulla race riots, said the use of the flag during that violence had left an ugly mark.
. The wearing of the flag as a cape there, and at other events like music festivals, had turned it into a weapon, he said.
"It was not a symbol of unity, it was a symbol of otherness... as if to say this is what is really Australian, you are not," Mr Moffitt said.
The riots was a "perfect storm" of symbolism with lasting connotations, he said.
"You had life savers, the beach, the Australian flag, the southern cross, the Eureka tattoo," Mr Moffitt said.
"Chuck in some beers, the hot sun. It's all those Australian symbols turned into a nasty cocktail."
People who had southern cross tattoos prior to the riots now looked like "nationalist boofheads" because of the changed symbolism, he said.
University of Technology Sydney associate professor Katrina Schlunke said the flag had become a confused symbol, both filled with meaning and deprived of it.
"It can be used as a kind of rallying symbol for a racist action, so it's too heavily imbued with meaning," she said.
"And on the other hand, it's as if it's being emptied out of meaning by its popular uptake and casual use on cars and everyone flying one in their back yard and here and there."
Meanwhile, the poll revealed even fewer people would vote for a republic if the 1999 referendum question were put to them now, with 33 per cent answering yes, compared with 45 per cent who answered yes 13 years ago.
Monarchist David Flint said support for a republic had been down in polls for years, even before the latest royal marriage and the Queen's diamond jubilee.
He said people were "peeved" with politicians, but not with the Queen.
But republican David Morris said the original question had been so flawed, the result was unsurprising. Research last year by UMR showed 48 per cent supported Australia becoming a republic, he said.
Mr Morris said the question had been off the political agenda for too long and a national conversation needed to happen on the best way to frame a republic.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/flag-our-greatest-australian-divide/story-fncynkc6-1226559592125

Well, I'm working Australia Day, so for me it means gearing up for a 10-hour shift, hoping we have no fights during the afternoon in the bar. Security isn't being put on until the normal time of 7pm. :lol:.

Technically it was you..

The first person to use the phrase 'invasion day' should be perma-banned.

Public holiday.

Nothing.