Stand by nation

LET’S hear it for the termites. Australia Day came again and the usual “tear it down” advocates were vocal yet again, demanding that we change the date of Australia Day because of what happened in history 230 years ago.

You don’t see modern British people sitting on the beach at Pevensey Bay or the site of Battle Abbey chanting “Normans go home” because of 1066.

Long ago the disparate peoples of the what is now the UK became British and it’s time the descendants of the Australian original peoples (who by the way are centuries dead, along with the First Fleeters) faced the facts that this country will never again be what it was before the tall ships came over the horizon.

I am an Australian and the Aboriginals and Torres Strait peoples are also Australians, with the same rights under the same laws ... likewise with those naturalised whose ancestry is Vietnamese, Greek, German or whatever.

The idea is mooted that we have separate recognition of the original Australians in the Australian Constitution. That must not be allowed for it is nothing but blatant apartheid, segregating them from the rest of the populace. One Constitution (with no ethnic distinctions), one system of laws and one flag for one nation.

Regarding flags, not only the date of Australia Day the disrupters seek to change but, more importantly, they demand the nation’s flag be changed to some “arty farty” bilious combination of colours and a design that speaks to the “modern viewpoint”.

The UK has not changed its flag in centuries despite its populace being no longer only Anglo- Saxon and Celt nor has the US changed the ‘Stars and Stripes’ despite the influx of different ethnicities from the original white colonists.

I vehemently endorse and support that car sticker that refers to our flag and says if you don’t like it, leave.

Either standby your nation as a constitutional monarchy and our flag or get out and go somewhere else but good luck in trying to get your adopted country’s flag and modus operandi changed to suit your prejudices. — ROGER E. DESHON, Toowoomba