Hey Woofa’s,
Australia Day is the official National Day of Australia, celebrated annually on 26 January each year.
It marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships At Port Jackson, New South Wales and the rising of the flag of Great Britain at Sydney Cove by Governor Arthur Phillip.
However, to various Indigenous Australians (and those sympathetic to their cause) Australia Day is known as ‘Invasion Day’ or ‘Survival Day’!
This is as a protest to what they see as the celebration of an invasion of the continent by Europeans.
There always seem to be talks of actually changing the date but for now it’s still 26 January.
Compared to other Countries we are a young Country and we get it wrong sometimes.
Our ancestors did some horrific things, I’m not condoning that.
However, if they didn’t arrive at all most of us wouldn’t exist!
All we can do is – Do Much Better and be a UNITED Country.
The message behind the ad is this – This is the Story of Australia – the story of an extraordinary nation.
The Story begins 60,000 years ago. New chapters are written every day. On Australia Day, we reflect on our history, its highs and its lows.
We respect the stories of others. And we celebrate our nation, its achievements and most of all, its people. We’re all part of the story.
Is NO-ONE owns the land or the planet.
I recently read this from a post on facebook –
‘Well, you see, Aborigines don’t own the land, they belong to it. It’s like their mother.
See those rocks, they’ve been standing there for 600 million years.
Still be there when you and I are gone.
So arguing over who owns them is like two fleas arguing over who owns the dog they live on!!’
I believe it’s quoted from the Crocodile Dundee movies!
According to Britannica Earth is roughly 4.4 billion years old.
Now according to World Atlas humans and their ancestors have been walking the planet for about 6 million years.
Homo sapiens, who are the modern form of humans evolved 300,000 years ago from Homo erectus.
Human civilizations started forming around 6,000 years ago.
Now I’ll let those numbers sink in for a bit.
THEN if you do the math no humans own the Earth or any part of it.
Earth is and will be here long after humans have become extinct.
Fighting over who owns it and what has been done is irrelevant in the big scheme of things.
Well regardless of whether you celebrate the day or not, all Aussies are given a Public Holiday aka a day off!
So with the day off and the weather is meant to be good why don’t you do something with your dog?
Some ideas to get you thinking about what you can do are:
You get the idea, do something or do nothing, but whatever you do, do it with your dog and have fun doing it.
Also be aware that if your dog doesn’t like fireworks, that someone is home with them if they’re going off in your area!
Today is Australia Day, whether you celebrate the day or not, do something fun with your dog.
It’s as simple as that!
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