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The comment ‘The day I don’t feel Australian? That would be Australian Day’ written by Chelsea Bond discusses whether or not Australian Day is for all Australians.
Chelsea is a part of a family with many different cultures and because of that, she feels excluded on Australian Day. The day is for celebrating the arrival of the British ‘the first fleet’ in 1788 but Chelsea thinks that the day wasn’t a defining moment of Australian history.
She is saying that the day is not honorable to those who were in the country before they were. The Aborigines for example. That means that the day is just worthy of commemoration to her.
Now Chelsea is marching every year on Australian Day with her family. She is marching, to honor the people who fought for Australia before January 26th, 1788.
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For the reader to understand the background and reasoning for Chelsea Bond’s opinion on Australia Day, it is important for her to introduce her family history and background.
She talks about her overall concern about the privileging of one version of history at the expense of another. She uses her mother and father as an example.
The history and background of her mother and father are very different which makes Bond feel torn between what to do on this day.
Specifically, in paragraph 14 of the article, the reader is presented to one of Chelsea Bonds main arguments within the text. She writes:
“For me personally, celebrating Australia Day on this day is a symbolic and irreconcilable act of exclusion”. Throughout the paragraph, she elaborates on this thought and makes a reference to an advertisement named “BBQ at Richie Benaud’s house?”
that is encouraging people to in this case eat more lamb. Chelsea clearly feels violated and excluded, because the video only includes “white Australians” that she feels clearly reminds people of the continued white washing of Australia’s history.
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