On Australia Day
Reasons some should call 26/1 Thankful Day. (1) No civil wars yet. (2) Medical care for all. (3) Workers forced to pay ‘wages & ‘housing’ for those not interested in working in their whole life. (4) Laws to appease & pay refugees more benefits than aged pensioners. (5) Disruptive religion allowed. (6) Crims given kid glove treatment. (7) People gagged from calling it the way it is. (8) No Japanese occupation in 1940s. Reader, Cairns
Australia Day, if you want to celebrate living in a great country, take the day off and enjoy. If you don’t agree with Australia Day, don’t have the day off. Simple. Lou-Anne, Redlynch
Australia Day Could we maybe make AD the 3rd Saturday in January no matter what the date everyone happy no worries. Ma Kettle, Mareeba
The mayor of Yarrabah. Your choice to commemorate survival day does more to divide all of Australia rather then closing the gap. Maybe your community needs to take a leaf out of Jacinta Price’s thoughts. If you do not know who she is I can inform you she is a proud indigenous Northern Territory politician. She speaks volumes. Buck, Gordonvale
Looks like it’s time to cut the taxpayer funding to the Yarrabah Shire Council. Greg, Cairns CBD
There will never be reconciliation – the divisions will only grow further apart when attitudes like the Greens and the Yarrabah council prevail. Do what you will but if you want to live in peace and harmony, it will not happen while current views prevail. Bazza, Mareeba