Re: [OT] - HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!!

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
news:PMbc6.609$Ac6.12471@ozemail.com.au...
| Tezza <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
| > "Rob Kearey" <mammal@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
| > | Sam Eades wrote:
| > |
| > | > Happy Australia day everyone!!
| > |
| > | Or Survival Day, as the local Murris call it. Much more positive than
| > | Invasion Day, and good on 'em.
| >
| >
| > What crap.
|
| I almost agree.  Survival Day is more conciliatory but Invasion Day seems
more
| appropriate.  Unless of course you're an apologist for the aggressive
| expansion of the British Empire and want to revise history.  My Consise
Oxford
| Dictionary has inavde = "make hostile inroad into (country)"; sounds spot
on
| to me or is there an undiscovered treaty out there some where?

Yeah, the French, Indonesians, Chinese and Japanese would've been so much
kinder.