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Jonas backpack travel around the GLOBE !
En fantastisk tur i Kakadu national park er vel overstaaet..
paa trods af alt for mange myg, fluer og daarlige naetter i varme telte var det en fantastisk oplevelse.
vi var en gruppe paa 15 afsted og saa bl.a. nogle af Kakadu's vandfald og saa den mest fantastiske natur.
imorgen gaar rejsen 3 dage ned mod Uluru ( ayers rock ) og kings canyon. det bliver en lang rejse uden tvivl, men en fed rejse.
lige nu og Josephine og jeg checket ind paa et hostel i Darwin og skal allerede afsted kl. 05:30 imorgen.
i maa have det godt, vi ses om over 1 maaned :)
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Kaid Dina Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed the post! I'm oovubisly proud of my country and I think it's amazing when we stop to look at how far we've come in such a short period of time. There are many things we still need to improve, and there's a lot of history behind us that we fail to acknowledge as well, but at the same time we're a young nation and still growing. I hope that one day Australia will become a mature influence and voice in our region of the world and perhaps we're seeing that beginning now, with the apology and East Timor. For me the next step in our development is to become a republic but that still seems like a decade or more away; perhaps when Charles becomes king we'll have that debate again.I do know what you mean about Australia Day and changing the date; on the surface it seems unfair to change the date which the majority of people are comfortable with, particularly as not all Indigenous Australians object to it. I think the problem is, though, that many people see the celebrations as subsuming the past and there's a strong feeling that history is being rewritten and what happened is being forgotten.What most people want is a dialogue about it and if the majority of Australians (including Aborigines) decided that Australia Day represented modern Australia then I think keeping the date would be okay; we'd be able to balance celebration with remembrance. But right now we're not doing that and that's why many Aborigines are upset, as their heritage is basically being overlooked.Personally I am in favour of changing the date as symbolically I think it's the right thing to do; I don't see how we can be a united country while our national day has so many different meanings. Historically as well Australia Day has only been celebrated Australia-wide since 1946, so it's actually quite a recent addition which people forget.Foundation Day would be my preference but you're right, as that's January 1 that might be a problem I guess we could just have the holiday on the 2nd? Sorry Day wouldn't be a bad date, or possibly May 27, the referendum the problem with either, though, is that they could work to remind people of the past. I'd rather have a date which doesn't remind anyone of cultural guilt if possible. Foundation Day would be the best of those.Perhaps the best thing to do would be to wait until we become a republic. We'd have a day which would be truly ours to share in then. I hope it comes soon. MQ I know, and it's interesting that you met through what happened with Kaylee as well; sometimes good things really can come out of bad situations.I think Dina, Tim and Jack are more than entitled to being honorary Australian citizens, don't you think?