Strangely, I'm on the cusp of 82 y.o.a. as a third generation Australian and I have never been able to identify with January 26th as a day of importance to be celebrated by all Australians.
If Mr. Joyce shrinks from shouldering the blame for the actions of British colonizers in stealing country from people who had occupied this land-mass for perhaps in excess of 60000 years before the European prison fleet arrived... then that is HIS problem and not mine nor those detractors whom he has said should be living 'under a rock'.
In my humble opinion, if Mr. Joyce and his ilk think that Britain duck-shoving their overloaded prison population to a wilderness half-way around the world in the late 18th century was an act of honour and nation-building... then he is letting us all know how un-fitted he is to be posing as a peoples' representative in a democratic parliament of the early 21st century.
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