Changing the date of Australia Day, as The Age journalist Martin Ferguson proposes, would be like giving into bullying or even to terrorism and seen as weakness and cowardice throughout the world.
It would be better to look at some of the central problems concerning the January 26 riot (which, an ALP staffer incited and had intended for the opposition leader, albeit in a lesser form, to give the opposition leader a bit of curry to embarrass him in the media); and that is, that without work and income people don’t have purpose and a sense of place in a nation’s community; that people need to be trained to get work and income and they must live within the nation’s community as part of it, and not be excluded.
An inclusive Australia with work and income for all Australians.
JOHN DOBINSON.
North Balwyn
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