[JayJay]

‘Would it create more problems than it solves?’

What ‘problems’ exist now?

And if we include this what next?
A public holiday for every religion/culture represented in Australia?

Australia has generous annual leave provisions. If it is essential that a holiday such as Diwali or any other is observed via a day off then most employers would probably grant a worker this day off from their Annual Leave entitlement.

No, we do not need this public holiday.

[JayJay]

There are sadly some quite ill-informed people in our world, and also some un-necessarily rude ones.

We are all entitled to voice an opinion but base it on at least some facts, and do so without using insulting, derogatory or downright rude language. Please.

[JayJay]

So if we became a republic it would be cheaper than an infrequent visit from a svereign? If this is really what you think I suggest you look at the costs other countries outlay at all levels – individual, corporate, state and national – in running elections for presidents, and all the associated party political ‘manoeuverings’.

We already have 3 sets of regular, expensive elections – local, state and federal. But republicans will obviously happily fork out for a fourth level of regular elections based on an as yet undefined selection/nomination process, and budget.

Our current system is one which gives us an apolitical sovereign and governor-general – the latter of whom IS Australian and lives on our soil – who do not have a legislative role and therefore cannot ‘interfere’ in the actual business of Australian government.

Until we have a clear view of what an Australian republic will look like, and its ongoing cost to the taxpayers, I would suggest an unbroken constitutional monarchy is worth sticking with.

[JayJay]

This would be the height of hypocrisy.

Years of effort by parents, educators, social workers,medical and legal practitioners, and governments, into educating successive generations about the dangers, known and unknown, of drug-taking, downed in one massive act of stupidity.

Shame on those proposing this.
Shame on those ‘athletes’ considering it. And shame on those, like the author of this article, saying they would support it by watching.

[JayJay]

What a low act. He is NOT there to bray his personal political opinion to the world.
He is there representing his – our -country as it is TODAY. Our national day is 26th January. It is NOT HIS JOB TO CHANGE THAT.

He should be recalled to Canberra and an explanation demanded of him. If he cannot change his opinion he should resign his post to give another, more fitting person the opportunity to represent Australia FULLY.

[JayJay]

Both Andrew and Allen are correct. Halloween started out as the pagan Celtic festival of Samhain. Early Christians piggy-backed on the date to capitalise on the population’s festive activities, creating All Hallows (Souls) Day aka Hallow’een, the day/night before All Saints Day. Over the centuries this has morphed into Halloween as we know it today. The original 2 holy days are still on Christian calendars.

I also enjoy the children’s happiness at Halloween. There is sadly / unfortunately far too much doom and gloom in the world and children are actively exposed to constant ‘the sky is falling’ rhetoric.

There is nothing wrong with fun despite many people thinking it is a triviality. It is definitely not. Happiness, laughter, fun ease our lives and give us hope, and this is especially important for children.

I say ‘Bah humbug’ to those who decry the fun of Halloween. No-one is forcing them to participate.

[JayJay]

None of the books I read as a child, and in turn read and introduced to the next two generations made me cringe, then, or now.

What makes me cringe are the folk who view everything through today’s understandings, find the past so wanting they need to erase it completely, or censor it so the original is often lost, and often therefore, the magic.

What makes me cringe is rhe proliferation of books for children so set on a moralistic ‘learning journey’ that fun and wonder are absent.

And what makes me cringe is hearing/reading stats about the increasing number of young people not finding joy in reading.

And I cringe at the demise of the simple pleasure of reading for enjotment.

Indeed we’ve come ‘far’ – into a world of increasing preachiness where everything we do is judged against other people’s, often censorious, definition of worthiness.

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