30/08/2025
For weeks now protesters have taken to the streets of Australia for all sorts of reasons. Free Palestine, the rights of Trans people, women’s rights, white suprematists, indigenous rights, environmental protection, LGBTQI rights…the list is long and some causes more worthy than others but today is different because today people who are proclaiming to be defending the Australian way of life are also taking to the streets.
In the lead up to today these people have been cast as right wing extremists by governments and the media, especially the ABC. They have been labeled as people who are racist, who are homophobic bigots who perhaps don’t believe in law, who are anti migration and anti Australian, people who see anyone different to them as a threat and people who believe Australia should just be just for Australians.
It is more than likely true that there are indeed some right wing extremists marching today who do indeed believe all of the above, but what of the people who simply don’t think that burning the Australian flag should be allowed? Are we as Australians, men and women who have fought and died for the future of the country, sports people and teams that have competed under the pride of the Australian flag now not allowed to wave one of the last remaining symbols of the lucky country?
Australia Day is now labelled as invasion day. A day many of our indigenous people feel is the day they saw their persecution begin, but we have failed to name another day to celebrate being Australian. We celebrate all manner of multicultural festivals and communities but wave an Aussie flag outside of the Olympics or a major event and we should be ashamed?
Australia does indeed have a rich and proud multicultural heritage. In Melbourne places like Lygon street, Oakleigh and China town wouldn’t exist without multiculturalism, but how have we allowed migration to get to the levels it has with no real plan for housing? Or how to maintain law and order? How have we allowed our own identity to be taken away from us for the sake of appeasing migrant populations who in some cases demand death to Australians and who represent votes for our reprehensible politicians.
If you do attend the Australia March today don’t do it because you think we should ban migration, don’t march to spread hate or start trouble, don’t march to take away indigenous rights, don’t march to deny people the choice to live as who they want, don’t march in protest of wars fought thousands of miles away, march because there are still a great many of us that are proud to call Australia home. March because we have forgotten what it means to live in the lucky country, march because burning our flag is not ok, march because we are lead by and sick of self serving incompetent politicians, but most of all march because we have had enough of not being allowed to be proud of who we are or at least who we were.
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