Yes, let's all celebrate Oz Day. I'm not interested in all the arguments about why it should be called "invasion day"; the settlement of Terra Australis by Europeans was always going to happen, if the Poms didn't do it then the French or Dutch certainly would have. The land was even known as New Holland before the first fleet even arrived. Sure it's a tad sad, but does anyone really believe that this huge continent could have remained "un-invaded", with it's aboriginal inhabitants continuing an existance removed from modern influences? And in retrospect, I'm sure the settlement by Poms may have been the better outcome, considering how some other European countries were, at that time, treating native inhabitants of other foreign lands that they wanted to colonise. So I'll be celebrating that I live in a great country, and have the freedom to go windsurfing this arvo, followed by a couple of cold ones and a lamb chop on the barby! Anyone who feels that we shouldn't be celebrating the colonisation of this land can simply choose to not celebrate it. And get over it! There's many religious celebrations that I don't celebrate, but I'll defend the right of anyone else to celebrate them if that's what they want to do.
Anyway, wind, beer, bbq!!!!!
