Australia Day Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/australia-day/ AUTHOR | SPEAKER | MISSIOLOGIST | AGITATOR Mon, 22 Jan 2018 03:49:12 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://i0.wp.com/mikefrost.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-MF.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Australia Day Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/australia-day/ 32 32 116298986 We stole your land, your language and your wages, but hey let’s celebrate! https://mikefrost.net/stole-land-language-wages-hey-lets-celebrate/ https://mikefrost.net/stole-land-language-wages-hey-lets-celebrate/#comments Mon, 22 Jan 2018 03:21:23 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=27561 “To change the date of Australia Day would be to deny the complexity of our national story and seek to remodel our national identity on an overly simplistic narrative of shame that denies all that we have achieved together throughout our history”. – Owen Laffin   “Australia Day is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate all […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/stole-land-language-wages-hey-lets-celebrate/feed/ 32 27561 When your monuments lie and your national day offends, change them https://mikefrost.net/monuments-lie-national-day-offends-change/ https://mikefrost.net/monuments-lie-national-day-offends-change/#comments Wed, 23 Aug 2017 21:36:21 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=27175 What does it say about a modern liberal democracy when its memorials don’t accurately portray its past and its national day ignores the plight of its oppressed citizens?   Can you ‘discover’ something that other people already own and love? I mean, if you claim to have discovered something – like a cure for cancer […]

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