Happy Australia Day!

It has become unfashionable to be proud of Australia. 

The Labor Government plans to indoctrinate all children through their compulsory education curriculum to use the term “Invasion Day”. The University of Western Australia has announced that displaying the Australian Flag on your car makes you a racist. We are told our constitution is racist. That Australia Day is an “artificial fabrication” designed by “smug Anglo-Saxons to ensure we forget real history” of “hypocrisy and racism”through “noisy triumphalism and trumped up nationalism.”

At university campuses across the country, it remains a rite of passage for young wannabe intellectuals to burn our flag as a sign of their intellectual sophistication, an act which initiates them into the left wing movement (and, I suspect, guarantees them a job as a journalist…).

It would seem every day we are told by our self-appointed intellectual elites that there is nothing to love about our great country, and that we must engage in ritual abasement and self-flagellation; ashamed to be Australian.

To say you’re proud of Australia means you are viewed as uneducated, someone to be sneered and jeered at.

I’ve had enough.

I’m proud to be Australian, and no amount of radical left wing propaganda or cries of “Racist!” will ever change this.

I am proud to live in a free country which has freedom of expression, protection of minorities, which welcomes legal immigrants and is built upon fundamental western values of human rights. I’m proud we have beautiful beaches, the nicest people, and themost livable cities in the world. I’m proud to live in one of the most free countries in the world, and that the Howard Government left us with an economy that is the envy of the world.

What made Australia great was the belief in fundamental values, and a cultural heritage which enabled this.  

Sadly, these values that make Australia great are coming under attack by the left.

Under the guise of political correctness, people are being tried and convicted for speaking their minds. Our government wants to censor the internet, has set up an inquiry to censor journalist critics, and the Greens want to censor the media outright. This is not to mention that Labor is creating a nanny state to tell us what to eat, drink, and do on weekends.  

Under the guise of ‘multiculturalism’, people are treated as preferred citizens on the basis of race, and tax dollars are going to promote division and separate social and religious groupings.

Worst of all, last year was the passing of the economy destroying carbon dioxide tax by Julia “There Will Be No Carbon Tax Under The Government I Lead” Gillard, for which there are just no words.

What explanation can there be for such policies? I think the publically declared hatred of everything Australian speaks for itself.

Today, as we celebrate Australia Day, let us remember the generations of battlers before us who built this great land, and the legacy they have left us. Let us remember the legions of retired Australians, so neglected by our present government, for what they have done. Let us remember what it is that makes us great.

But let us also remember that the price of this is eternal vigilance and a constant battle to preserve this heritage. There is a concerted effort to undermine our values and our democracy, and we can never let up the fight or we shall lose all that we have, and all that so many fought and died for.  

Thank you to all you have done in spreading the word. Thank you to everyone who has sacrificed and donated to keep freedom alive. Thank you for not giving up.

Australia is the greatest country on earth, and working together, we will make sure it will stay that way.

Well may we say, Advance Australia Fair. Now, and for many, many more years to come.

Tim Andrews
Managing Editor