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Cancel ‘Invasion Day’

Stop patronising Aboriginal Australians

22 January 2022

9:00 AM

22 January 2022

9:00 AM

Here’s a step towards restoring national unity as we observe Australia Day. Issue every non-Aboriginal citizen who uses the term ‘Invasion Day’ with a one-way ticket out of the country to wherever their forebears came from. It would be a double blessing. The rest of us would no longer have to listen to strident leftist voices complaining about ‘invasion’ while for the complainers there would be the advantage that the effects of British settlement they so tirelessly condemn would be partly reversed by the departure of at least some of the descendants of the ‘invaders’.

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