It's Australia Day today

from w
We count our blessings being able to live in this wonderful country, but Australia Day isn't a favourite day to remember that first fleet of convicts coming to Sydney and treading unkindly on the land that is being respected by another kind of people.

The next day:
And it was a sorry state of affairs in Canberra yesterday. An Aboriginal protest group caused some havoc as well as the police who were guarding/guiding the Prime Minister who lost a blue suede shoe in the shuffling to the car. Not the way to go to get respect I think. All around it was a sorry sight.