racism on australia day, page-31

Australia Day has become "Ugly Day". I spent the most recent Ugly Day on the Gold Coast and watched the ferals do their stuff. Absolutely sickening and somewhat infuriating......and don't for one minute think that they were all 'young' people. Many middle aged and older Australians now seem to want to use the flag to vent their harbored prejudices.

But for as long as we have people like the cop quoted in one of these articles saying that it has nothing to do with the 'Cronulla' mentality, then we're going nowhere towards fixing it. Australia Day has become the claimed day of celebration for those that disown tolerance, despise multiculturalism and take the opportunity to embrace racism, albeit in the most cowardly manner by doing it under the cover of our national flag on our supposed day of national celebration of all things good in our country. That's not to suggest that others don't celebrate it for what it should be.

If the government was to suddenly add, a specific, separate emblem as a symbol of tolerance, multiculturalism and racial harmony, somewhere on the flag, these despicable lowlife would never be seen draping themselves in it ever again.

Suddenly it would represent everything they despise.

When I see our flag these days, I'm sorry, but it now means different things to me. It has been tinged by ugliness.