Change the Date by Angelina Maranesi

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Celebration of our Nation.
Australia Day.

Let’s choose a date.
Let’s have the debate
to choose a day not tarnished by invasion.
A day that isn’t tainted.
A day that’s not divisive.

Choose a day
to share our stories,
our heartaches and our glories.

Choose a day
to celebrate our culture.
Making peace our future.
Sharing traditions,
food, language, song and dance.
Let’s give everyone a chance.

Choose a day
to own our true history.
To wrap around our first people,
the ancestors of this land.
We need to make a stand
to acknowledge and celebrate
the oldest culture on earth.

Choose a day
for healing,
compassion
and acceptance.
Choose a day for all of us
to celebrate our nation.

2 thoughts on “Change the Date by Angelina Maranesi

  1. What a kindly worded invitation to positive change. It’s time 🙂

    What would be the ideal date in indigenous culture as the ‘start’ of the
    year cycle? Spring is traditional in many times and places (January was
    a political Roman ruler thing I think). so if the new year could be
    moved, why not Aus day.

    Best wishes, Jeanette

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