Council surveyed ratepayers and found 60 per cent want it to ‘support Australia day’

[@Aussielynne2024]

I will not stand or believe in welcome to country, stop paying them to attend these events and see how fast it stops. Vote yes Australia Day

[@kenwaugh7]

Celebrating the arrival of another country's navy is pathetic. So is waving another coutnry's flag. So is bowing to another country's king. Why does Australia act like a gutless little colony?

[@fruckya]

Why do the left get to fly Palestine flags and gay pride flags and trans flags it has no history of Australia ​@@kenwaugh7

[@MAMethven]

I'm sick to death of welcome to country. I was born here as were numerous generations of my family. Australia is my country and I certainly do not need to be welcomed to my own country.

[@kenwaugh7]

Given you are such a proud Australian, do you want an Australian as our head of state?

[@MAMethven]

@@kenwaugh7 To be honest I have never really thought about it. I have always felt that we were fine with having a king. These days I'm not so sure. The king has been indoctrinated and is helping to bring in all of these totalitarian things that are in disguise as being good for the environment. Global warming is 1 massive lie just to gain full and absolute control over all of us and that I don't agree with.

[@Rosa-m5k2e]

Yeah Pauline we are sick of this nonsense by the activists

[@tamimrktz6966]

News flash, Australians want to celebrate their own country.

[@kenwaugh7]

Celebrating the arrival of another country's navy is pathetic. So is waving another coutnry's flag. So is bowing to another country's king. Why does Australia act like a gutless little colony?

[@deniseharrison1410]

We want to celebrate Australia Day because we are proud to be Australian

[@ansumanahargett6227]

I know I want to be!

[@danielhowell8594]

Says you

[@Design_no]

What a surpise. Of course people want to celebrate Australia day. 🎉🎉🎉

[@ansumanahargett6227]

G’Day to everyone! 🇦🇺🦘

[@australiafirst520]

Voting Wannabee Politicians into Local Councils was a Brilliant Idea.

[@raymondleigh2746]

Where would we be if the defense of Australia was in Aboriginal hands - what a total joke.

[@YvonneCrean]

Or the illegals etc

[@patriot77185]

They would still be in the bush !!!!!

[@outback109]

Stop paying them for it and it will stop within the week.

[@ScottRichmond-nh5uj]

This is not What Councils are for...😡 FLUSH THE TOILET!

[@YTGhostCensorshipCanSuckMe]

Exactly. If its so culturally significant, then do it for free. Native Person: Its not that culturally significant.

[@FlyOz-b7b]

Given Aborigines own 50% of Australias land mass they can attend the front lines when China declares war upon us the 2nd row can be all the greemies, politicians and Whitoridginals

[@BCl-dn4gn]

​@FlyOz-b7b they won't...

[@kenwaugh7]

Celebrating the arrival of another country's navy is pathetic. So is waving another coutnry's flag. So is bowing to another country's king. Why does Australia act like a gutless little colony?

[@janreid1629]

Big YES to Australia Day with only Australian flags ! Thank you!

[@ianjones7740]

It’s not THEIR country. It’s OUR country. Australians’ country.

[@FlyOz-b7b]

They arrived murdered all prior races we arrived and allowed them to continue ITS now OUR country and as they contribute very little they can B.. off

[@Eric-jo8uh]

Hear, hear. Thank you for saying this.👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏

[@balianofibelin1]

Here Here

[@kenwaugh7]

Celebrating the arrival of another country's navy is pathetic. So is waving another coutnry's flag. So is bowing to another country's king. Why does Australia act like a gutless little colony?

[@patriot77185]

Unfortunately the Labor party, Greens and Teals are traitors to AUSTRALIA !!!!!!

[@user-rf2el4gh5d]

1 flag,1 country, 1 people enough of this divisive BS.

[@kenwaugh7]

Celebrating the arrival of another country's navy is pathetic. So is waving another coutnry's flag. So is bowing to another country's king. Why does Australia act like a gutless little colony?

[@billienomates1606]

To much council and government interference for political gain, disgusting.

[@ianpickett8420]

Totally agree ........... Councils in particular need to get back to rubbish collect instead of employing and promoting it .

[@colinm1325]

​@@ianpickett8420 And Fixing the potholes and crap bits of roads...ffs.

[@ansumanahargett6227]

If I Australian, (Which I totally am, because of my ancestry…Since I’m mixed in with a couple of aboriginals), I would love to celebrate this holiday! I love Australia!🇦🇺 🦘🐨

[@kenwaugh7]

Celebrating the arrival of another country's navy is pathetic. So is waving another coutnry's flag. So is bowing to another country's king. Why does Australia act like a gutless little colony?

[@KT-bb1tb]

I'd Like Councils to Stick with what they Know Best......Rubbish Bins and Foot Paths !

[@leeevans2929]

And they can’t even get that right

[@gdog2831]

Yer I hope that was the reason only 60% of ratepayers said they wanted Australia Day "supported by Councils".

[@kitfortune2371]

Yes!!!

[@andymartinez767]

And even that is disputable

[@smiddysmidton8313]

Councils can't even do that but they believe they can interfere and solve every international crisis. Putting the bins out is a job i task to my 13 year old son and he nails it every week.

[@RT_today]

Welcome to Country crap should be scrapped. They are well past their use by dates and are more divisive than anything else.

[@alexwhite2265]

I agree with u

[@kenwaugh7]

Celebrating the arrival of another country's navy is pathetic. So is waving another coutnry's flag. So is bowing to another country's king. Why does Australia act like a gutless little colony?

[@lesleecarter5615]

Australia Day is not a Captain Cook landing day,it’s the day Australians were given the title of Australian citizen and not a British subject,26th January 1949 that is when we became citizens of our own country.

[@John-kv7jo]

Without Cook Australia would not be what it is today. Thank God for colonization.

[@drsiigabb9935]

Captain Cook never discovered Australia. James Cook was a lieutenant upon the rediscovering of New Holland. Never made rank of Captain when he was alive, only posthumously. He rediscovered it on Apr 29.

[@kenwaugh7]

Celebrating the arrival of another country's navy is pathetic. So is waving another coutnry's flag. So is bowing to another country's king. Why does Australia act like a gutless little colony?

[@pxbvic]

A BS grievance industry nothing more...

[@Peter-p5u8t]

Ditch the welcome to country, it is done ad nauseam and its not needed, and Australia Day is Australia Day, thats it! ✅👍💯

[@jiminverness]

Also, remove all variations of "acknowledgement of country" rubbish too.

[@SOz-uf5yq]

I have an Abo neighbour who is calling me a WOG and others in the Street >>>> HELLO

[@whatever9770]

Sounds like a typical Bogan. Ignore them.

[@ChristineMeyer-hs9rg]

She fancies you. Watch out.

[@gdog2831]

What's so bad about being called a WOG? Call her a cnt and move on with your day without giving it a second thought.

[@Kelly-oe8kr]

Call her a see you next tuesday and you'd be called a racist, but she can call you whatever she likes with no repercussions. Some people need to be told that racism goes both ways!

[@nevertrustthegovernment7749]

I really, really HOPE that you had a stand for yourself, getting loud out there. Do NEVER allow a WOKE piece of shit like that, to EVER insult you.

[@galacticnemesis366]

Nah sorry Warren you lost me there mate. It’s still a divisive insult to Australian citizens to have an aboriginal political activist welcome us to our own country. A welcome to country isn’t even being used as aboriginals intended. It has been weaponised by those whose goal is for the so called colony to fall. Therefore I turn my back on it as Pauline has called for. It’s a bloody disgrace these people happily hold their hand out for tax payer dollars they happily take advantage of all of the great things our ancestors have provided to our country while calling for the state to fall.

[@John-kv7jo]

It's racist at heart. Every welcome to country is saying to the rest of Australians that Australia only belongs to the Aborigines.

[@kenwaugh7]

Celebrating the arrival of another country's navy is pathetic. So is waving another coutnry's flag. So is bowing to another country's king. Why does Australia act like a gutless little colony?

[@georgettefriends1400]

I will stand up and turn my back in protest! Whenever confronted with welcome to country, because I am Australian born 🇦🇺 Australia Day 🎉

[@MichaelMarsalek]

Why the hell should we be welcomed to the country. I'm sick to the back teeth of listening to that crap. And so far as Australia day is concerned that's the day I've known all my life and I wave the flag proudly.

[@bolge7777]

Who built..?? The; houses, roads, cars, planes, buses, trucks, electricity grids, water pipelines, farms/food supply....etc, who uses these things now and are eternally ungrateful...?????

[@I.Alfred.Williams]

You’re completely right!

[@kenwaugh7]

Celebrating the arrival of another country's navy is pathetic. So is waving another coutnry's flag. So is bowing to another country's king. Why does Australia act like a gutless little colony?

[@bolge7777]

@@kenwaugh7 Australia is controlled by the USA..!!!

[@BronwynMurray-sc2xu]

Australia Day is about celebrating our wonderful country. 26 January has been chosen as the date to do that and, for so long, the date suited everyone, just fine. Its a time to remember all of our achievements. A time to get together as family, friends and the community to enjoy a great day. In recent years, there has been too much debate about the political correctness of just about everything. You can't please everyone all the time, so let's go with the majority rules. As for Mt Kosciuszko, just leave it as it is. It has worldwide recognition, it doesn't need changing.

[@SueNicholls-95]

Neither did the name of Fraser Island!

[@kenwaugh7]

Celebrating the arrival of another country's navy is pathetic. So is waving another coutnry's flag. So is bowing to another country's king. Why does Australia act like a gutless little colony?

[@SOz-uf5yq]

Listen Guys > NO MATTER WHAT > This Nation of ours > Will be One Nation with One FLAG > NO OTHER < F/STOP.

[@just_julie00]

One Nation with Pauline Hanson

[@just_julie00]

Question why fly so many flags we need to unite under the one Australian flag

[@kenwaugh7]

Celebrating the arrival of another country's navy is pathetic. So is waving another coutnry's flag. So is bowing to another country's king. Why does Australia act like a gutless little colony?

[@MatthewSwift-xc8sn]

NO NAME CHANGES NONE

[@MB-wc3jf]

I'm impressed... Mr. Mundine seem a wise and thoughtful person. I wish I could meet him. I wish people like him would have a hand in shaping the future into one cohesive and united society of all Australians. Maybe I'm a dreamer Maybe not the only one.

[@MatthewSwift-xc8sn]

No separatism one nation all peoples

[@baddaddy8718]

It’s another ridiculous thing done to divide. Scrap it before the division can never be repaired.

[@zig6427]

Not accepting this welcoming crap,I agree with Pauline.

[@SOz-uf5yq]

Forget 250 years lol > STOP Bringing out the History > F/STOP. This Nation will always be > One Nation and One Flag > NO OTHER > F/STOP

[@christinecavanagh5906]

I agree with Pauline We should turn our backs ,they are not listening to us we said NO! There is no such thing as welcome to country! Stop this nonsense it means NOTHING NOW!

[@kenwaugh7]

Celebrating the arrival of another country's navy is pathetic. So is waving another coutnry's flag. So is bowing to another country's king. Why does Australia act like a gutless little colony?

[@MatthewSwift-xc8sn]

Fly AU flags on Australia Day media ignore separatism

[@Bob-t8l]

Let's just make it an even million years.

[@judypamenter7869]

I'm with Pauline on this. Absolutely sick of this welcome rubbish.

[@danielweaver8684]

If your sick of this at AFL matches call or email the AFL and tell them.

[@mckenziehellenann]

I hope they get a clear message on Grand Final Day..

[@roberte5057]

I was an immigrant in 1969 as a child. I have always thought my welcome was when I became a citizen.

[@deniseorourke7235]

Mundine Jacinta price are the way forward for this country they represent both

[@johnlovett6704]

Are you seriously calling that excuse of a man a gentleman? I'm with Pauline, turn your back. Mundine is a good bloke.

[@dodgeboy9052]

After 250000 years and in all fairness its our time now,,, Nothing lasts forever ... !

[@michaeldaniels3018]

Well done Warren. Let's celebrate the beautiful nation we have built. We need to stand up against the divisionists and unite to make our future more prosperous.

[@John-kv7jo]

If we continue with the Welcome to Country, every Australian citizen should be able to perform the ceremony!

[@kevinwall8893]

maybe better to just not applaud the so called ceremony

[@gcm747]

As a Veteran of multiple deployments, this IS my country. I don’t need to be welcomed to it everywhere I go.

[@philipjones1301]

Sorry Warren, I agree with you on a lot of things but not on this. I have said it before, I don't need welcoming to the cty I was born in. I do not attend anything that has this shit in it.

[@John-kv7jo]

Get rid of the welcome to country. It's only for those who are not Australian. I don't need to be welcomed to my own country every week.

[@lexxel01]

apart from all councils having ABN and this means they are constitutionally unlawful

[@legbreaker2762]

I won't be turning my back, I'll be walking out in disgust!

[@actualfacts1055]

Scrap the whole thing, what an embarrassing joke.

[@waynetowers5828]

Yeh well I’ve had a welcome to country Whilst camping at a free camp near Innisfail in Queensland A group of first Australians arrived (30) and started yelling it’s our country and banging on caravans and pushing tents down More than half of the campers left in a hurry Luckily people called the police That finished it for that night but it continued for 5 nights I’m a elderly man with more titanium in than an aircraft ( both knees prosthetic, 4 spinal fusion’s, total shoulder reconstructions ) and I have to be subjected to this crap Luckily my dog a Labrador size dog became protective of me So next day with my dog tied up they put 5 smaller dogs onto my dog Then more blacks arrived with bull mastiff’s What was I to do , take out my rifle and sit there with a firearm That would concern everyone, and certainly not what I would want So I had to leave under yelling It’s our country Bullshit

[@billbryce3488]

Trudope is doing the same thing in Canada.

[@lizann3058]

Onya Pauline!

[@jimbaldacchino3755]

Generally when surveys are done they ask questions to suit the narative

[@smiddysmidton8313]

The fact that 40% don't want to is very concerning for our Country.

[@NoRegertsHere]

Seems to be roughly where all of these issues tend to have a line drawn. 60/40. Gay marriage, the voice, etc

[@jennyharris3638]

What a wonderful sensible Australian Mr. Mundine is ,I so respect your opinions.

[@SOz-uf5yq]

I love my NEW Nation > I sure don't want to see anyone inferring saying BLABLA.

[@BibFortuna888]

One of the great Australian leaders of the last few years.

[@heleti0000]

Like it or not, every country is a mix of indigenous and immigrant citizens. Virtually every country on earth has been subject to invasion and “colonisation” at some time in history. Smart civilisations adapt and accept the best that both worlds have to offer. Political Bigots have no place in meaningful ceremonies like “Welcome to Country”, spreading hatred and division. Warren Mundine - what a wonderful Ambassador for both Aboriginal people AND his immigrant forefathers. We need more people like him to bring ALL Australians together as a one, diverse people NOT a divided people.

[@trevordickson8617]

If the welcome to country were such a 'nice idea', any australian would be able to do it. Nothing 'nice' about it. Divisive as it is meant to be.

[@stevewiles7132]

Without colonisation, those who hate Australia day would have nowhere to live.

[@kenwaugh7]

Celebrating the arrival of another country's navy is pathetic. So is waving another coutnry's flag. So is bowing to another country's king. Why does Australia act like a gutless little colony?

[@patrussell8917]

Aboriginal ancestors failed to defend their land against possible opponents so lost that land according to global manner Blame ancestors for losing that land instead of demanding reparation from newer generations

[@janreid1629]

We didn't have any such thing as these ceremonies years ago. We don't need them now. The people performing them seem to keep adding more drama, more costuming......more over the top! I don't believe the length of time they claim to have been here anyway. The first people, Adam and Eve , were only created about 6-7,000 years ago according to Bible family history facts. When they say multiple thousands of years, I wonder what they were meant to be DOING all those years? Not invent the wheel. Adam and Eve's sons , just one generation down , built cities .

[@oddball1575]

No council in Australia is legal, we have federal & state thats all . We have had 2 votes on this, Australians sad no to it . Look it up .

[@Marydunlop-y4t]

I DO NOT want to be welcomed to this country. I am an Australian and this is also my country

[@peterlisyak5396]

I’m sorry, we are Australian, black, white, brown, all colours, AUSTRALIAN, ONE PEOPLE. Like it or go back to where you started whether you were born here or not.🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@thelaughingprophet2275]

You’re welcome at my place any time Warren.

[@AnneGilmour-jq1ds]

Become a joke……not at all respected. Get rid of Welcome to Country totally.

[@thinkharder1645]

Only 60% I have a small house block 600m2...and even I can fly the Australian flag. 🙏✝️🇦🇺

[@DuckDonald44]

If they change it to a 'welcome to country' for Captain Cook and there onwards, I'm in, otherwise it's my back you get. It should be about the oldest Australians (aboriginals) and the First Nations (Aboriginal and Settlers) people, united, as one.

[@robertheritage-i8h]

It’s not a council thing.

[@benny82ish]

What’s with his didgeridoo in Sydney? Wasn’t the didge only actually used by a couple of tribes in the far north of Australia?

[@LawrenceJamesWall]

I was present at tbe Auckland marae when Stevie wonder was welcomed ! Lovely and appropriate! We can learn mutch from their grace and wisdom and the way they conduct suthch matters. It was warm and close friendly, not flash for the public but intimate for Stevie and the children.

[@paulw7404]

Only when I come back into the country (ie at the Airport) will I listen to someone welcoming me back - ONLY if they accept that I was BORN and DESERVE to be here.

[@John-kv7jo]

In truth you should be able to perform the Welcome to Country as you are an Australian citizen.

[@alexwhite2265]

I sorry to say this no more welcome country events

[@John-kv7jo]

Warren is playing both sides. Scrap all this divisive nonsense. One country, one flag, one people.

[@andymartinez767]

Gee only 60% shows just where we are at. And this Welcome stuff, sorry, disagree. We are ONE NATION, and the only welcome anyone should get is by becoming an Australian Citizen.

[@anitakerry3032]

Id turn my back without hesitation.He no gentleman and is partially white as well but no money to be made there. Vote for Australia day its our day to shine .

[@tsme7733]

You welcome people to your home. You don't welcome them to their home.

[@philliplipple1799]

This banal ritual has been foisted upon us. Who implemented it in the first place?

[@wayneritchie3801]

No one will welcome me to my Country because I was born here.Councils Go Woke Go Broke.

[@keithhaycraft3765]

Ask Carl Krusheniski how Mt Kousiosko is pronounced.

[@SherylSchrantz]

I SUPPORT AUSTRALIA DAY!!

[@kitfortune2371]

I will turn my back, in honour of real, actual history and the actual first nations...those that were wiped out through "Aboriginal migration"...

[@BrettEdward-s1t]

Every council should support Australia day

[@LilyWhiteAkAConspiracyRealist]

What council is that, where are these un australian “aussies” …I ask. Shame, shame shame … multiculturalism is negative for this reason. As tucker carlson recently stated … “they want you to dislike this country, so you don’t complain when they take it from you” ** broadly speaking **

[@tin2001]

Youre wrong, Warren. The welcome to country and other random modern Aboriginal inventions do need to he banned from public events. They are what's causing division. We're all Australians today, and having these random people, especially on nationally televised events, telling us we're welcome in our own homes... Thats offensive. Tge implication is that we need to have some stranger give us permission to be in our own homes, in our own towns. I don't need that bloke's permission at all. The only exception is if its a specifically Aboriginal event, where you're going in knowing that's what it is. Otherwise, why stop with just the aboriginal bit? Why not include a Christian coming to pray and give a little sermon before the football or at the kids school assembly? Why not? It would create division to leave out the Christians, wouldn't it?

[@Jim-i4j]

Great interview 👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@mjorr3081]

Australi Day - let it be to celebrate all of our successes and the overcoming of our adversities in becoming Australia

[@maestrovonhuge9397]

Their is NAIDOC week and we celebrate it, ask for one day and it gets poo pooed.

[@jackkennedy70]

Australia has a housing problem hence no vacancies

[@notsofatmike1]

BC = Before centrelink

[@truthandlife4101]

I cannot listen to this headline 60% where are the Australians , this is so low , brain washing people or what.

[@allegra0]

NO get rid of it…Pauline is right. And get rid of that flag to.

[@actualfacts1055]

Australia Day is for everyone, even professional bludgers begging for handouts.

[@aussie5183]

Welcome to country should be all inclusive not just telling everyone this is aboriginal land,it should welcome people to Australia and all its culture, start integrating our culture back together again before it to late

[@stevetaylor8298]

Austral is a fantastic country. Those who don't support Australia Day.... There are lots of other countries to live in. I'm 7th generation Australian, DON'T welcome me.

[@johnchristie823]

If you go to Arnhem Land maybe you could get a welcome to country, but not in the city, as most of us are Australians, and have live here all our lives, plus this is only a very new concept, as it was not around in the last century, well this is just another imposition put on us by Gough Whitlam, who gave as the Aboriginal Industry, and Multiculturalism, and are past their use by date...!!

[@drsiigabb9935]

One question no one can answe. Which mob set foot on the country first? I want to see the evidence.

[@helengormlie966]

Great leaders unite not divide. Australia needs great leaders

[@stevewiles7132]

Aboriginals named places to identify what and where they were talking about to others, Europeans did exactly the same, for the same reason.