Institute of Public Affairs Research Fellow Saxon Davidson has slammed the “woke corporate elite” for lecturing Australians with “loud minority voices” about Australia Day.
Tens of thousands have gathered to march through Australia’s capital cities – calling for a change of Australia Day’s date.
Some protesters waved Palestinian flags and beat drums, while in Canberra, the protests sent Parliament House into lockdown.
“The thing with these protesters is they’re actually a loud minority,” Mr Davidson told Sky News host Liz Storer.
“We released some polling earlier this week that found that 63 per cent of Australians want to celebrate Australia Day on January 26 – that is an overwhelming majority – and only 17 per cent want any change regarding Australia Day.
“They aren’t an overwhelming amount of people to justify any change, and they’re actually being backed up by these woke corporate elite, who got the Voice to Parliament disastrously wrong, trying to lecture us about all of that – and they’re trying to lecture us again with these loud minority voices.”
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Maybe the Marxists should change it to 5th May, Marx's birthday. More in keeping with their ideology and plan.
I did what I do every year put a brand new Australian flag .
So glad we celebrate Australia Day on this day as that's history.
I came to Australia with my family bcoz it’s a great country with freedoms not found in many other countries. I became an Australian citizen on Australia Day, 15yrs ago, I see no reason why this should be taken away from me and my family. It WON’T be taken away from us!!!!
HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY
And that’s just it; they are a minority and are totally insignificant. They only listen to their own voices.
change the date, let the baby have its rattle. change it to my bday 8 nov.
Deport them.
AUSTRALIA DAY, ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE…🇦🇺🦘🇦🇺🦘🇦🇺🦘🇦🇺🦘🇦🇺🦘🇦🇺
Only 17% ? Where did you get that number from? 😂 estimating? Or just imagination from the Boss? 😂
If there is 17% ? Let make a quick calculation.
25 million
17% of 25 million?
That is about nearly 20%
2.5 + 2 = about 4 millions people want to say something about australia day?
In a country that having 4 million voices want to say something and someone else want to Tape their mouths up and shut them voices down?
You know the consequences?
Sure you dont.
They can stop the guilt trip that's for sure.
More Australians than the number who won the NO vote want the date to stay. So when does no mean no.
It doesnt matter what date you change it to – the woke leftist will still complain about it every year no matter what date it could be.
Ratbags
We are now at war with these minority idiots. Keep up the fight Sky News Australia.
I rather call for a chance of the name Australia to something neutral like the Great Southern Land.
So many Fat people
Phuckem
They are professional protesters, usually Trotskyites (or its successor organisation). Unfortunately others like myself need to work to put food on the table.
Save the date, stop the hate.
Australians need to open their eyes and realize that some minorities hate everything their country stands for
activists are a bunch of idiots
GET RID OF THE ABORIGINALS FLAG!!! WE HAVE ONLY ONE FLAG!!! WE ARE ONE PEOPLE!!! EUROPEANS AN AUSSIES BUILT THIS COUNTRY NOT THE ABORIGINALS!! BUT THEY WANT TO CLAIM FREE LAND!! WHY!! HAVE YOU WORKED FOR IT NO!! HAVE YOU CONTRIBUTED TO SOCIETY!!! This is ALBOSLEEZY doing trying to divide our COUNTRY!! LABOR AN GREENS AN CRONIES FINISHED!!!
The insane far-left Socialists (Communists) are behind a multi million dollar funding for their radical activists to infiltrate western countries and incite division…
Global Agenda Funding for BLM, Extinction Rebellion, Antifa, etc.
Albanese is destroying this nation by inspiring division and hatred.
Oh look at that 2 flags that are not Australian , Australia Day has one flag the Australian flag for everyone , just goes to show who the un Australians are ,maybe they can collude and go to Palestine and live ,see how they appreciate that .
Done n Dusted Jan 26th… happy Australia day … where do they get their information … ??? you only ave to look at them…
JAN 26th is AUSTRALIA DAY… for ever !!!!!
There was a loud minority at the recreation reserve today .
It was the hard right righteous right right right you are misogs man's minority man on a megaphone grandstanding political Australian Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi THING going on , ACT going on and I reckon they got a bloke who had the best bogan Australian accent they could find, in order to be the MC.
Didn't have the visual, only the audio and thought , yep ! I bet he's decked out in a blue bond's wife beater singlet underneath a wife beater check flannelette shirt and an Akubra hat on , because you shoulda heard it .
You shoulda heard the vitriolic Australian KKK representative.
You've got the extreme left queers for Palestine readers, BUT you've also got the extreme right opposite side of it too.
And this was a decent taste of that side .
I was nearly going to get changed, out of my long cashmere and suede boots, and into some three quarter spandex , t-shirt and thongs, lose my dental plate fitting and head on over to the Koroit Recreation Reserve looking the part so I could gain entry , 😂🤣 readers and pick a fight, fight, fight !
A loud deranged minority serving corporate elites. Oooooh, so edgy 😂😂😂.
How can Australia criticize the minority of native indigenous people, while bowing down to, and falling over themselves to appease a minority foreign Monarchy.
First Fleet so invasion day 😂😂 morons
Dutton and Murdoch, have betrayed the first Australians with a campaign of lies to sway the weak and morally feeble Liberal punters. This was the ugliest moment in the history of Liberal politics from the ugliest ever leader of the Liberals, maybe not as bad as Morrison but pretty close. Interview as many poncy dickheads as you want. This will stain the Liberals for a very long time.
They are un Australian. Show some RESPECT and allow the majority of Australians to celebrate our National Day and what it is that makes it so.
On Australia Day I decided to buy a can of paint to paint our bedroom, It said on the can, "a 10-year warranty." I told the lady who was serving me, I hate painting, I want the kind of paint that lasts for 40,000 years the same paint the Indigenous people used for their cave painting. The sharp-witted lady quickly responded saying, we don't sell that kind of paint, you need to go to Lyda Thorp, she might be able to help you out"…I'm being serious.
It baffles me why these so called activists or protesters that would applaud the attack on the Captain Cook statue have buddied up with the Palestinian protesters.
Yawn 3 days later nothing for another year