Prime Minister Tony Abbott has continued his campaign to entirely destroy the small amount of goodwill he has with the Australian people by convincing the Queen to make her own husband – a man best known here for asking an aboriginal businessman “Do you still throw spears at each other?”- a knight of the Order of Australia. Such fun.
Australia Day is always an interesting day, commemorating, as it does, the brutal invasion of Australia.
Still, most Australians seem to deal with it by simply treating it as a day off. Barbecues will be lit, much beer will be drunk, and the Triple J Hottest One Hundred will be played on radios everywhere. 2 million votes were cast this year for the best tunes of the year, and you can listen along too, starting right now. Get yourself a drink, listen in – it’s just like being an Australian.
Music links by Petorado and TheMightyTrowel.
SiubhanDuinne
Advance, Australia Fair.
tybee
so sorta like the 4th of july here. bbq. drunk. loud music. perfect.
Origuy
So come on mates, and grab your plates,
Let’s have a barbeque!
Eric Bogle — The Aussie Barbeque
BD of MN
Courtney Barnett’s Avant Gardener made my top 5 for last year…
Linkmeister
Have a barbecue. Use coal. It’s alright because Abbott repealed the Carbon Tax and other green regulations and laws.
mdblanche
I understand Prince Philip is a bit more popular in Vanuatu, where there is a cargo cult that believes he’s John Frum’s brother.
TheMightyTrowel
God. Tony Abbott. What a motherfucker. He’s the perfect id for a certain sort of Australian racist.
On the other hand glad to see triple j disqualify the dumb Taylor Swift campaign. Nothing wrong with tay tay or shake it off but it wasn’t about good music or australian magic or enjoying the hottest 100, just undermining it.
For those of you playing along at home, my song of the year was Thelma Plum’s how much does your love cost which just came in at 95.
So far is the only one of my top 10 to show up. We’ll see as the day continues.
Tim F.
Jesus. Any scots in Australia will need a liver transplant.
Debbie(aussie)
I am getting auto-play ads of f#cking Campbell Newman (QLD premier). he is most probably talking about ‘keeping QLD strong’, don’t know don’t care, sound is off. We, QLD, go to the polls next Saturday. With any luck the LNP will be history and Campbell even more so (he is likely to lose his seat). If not its goodbye to most gov’t assets and the great barrier reef.
SiubhanDuinne
@Debbie(aussie):
The only reason I know Campbell Newman’s name is because I follow several bat/flying fox rescue sites, one of which is overtly scornful of CN. He apparently is just fine with wholesale slaughter of these beautiful, useful creatures. Fuck him.
TheMightyTrowel
@Debbie(aussie): fingers crossed down here in the ACT. Nice to see the federal party fucking over the state level lnp so thoroughly.
DaveInOz
@TheMightyTrowel: Fingers crossed here in Melbourne too. As for #NastyTony, he didn’t have goodwill here to start with.
I’ve just cracked open a Mallee Bull, and am about to throw a couple of steaks on the barbie.
Happy Australia Day!
Mike G
@mdblanche:
Phil the Greek has a long history of boggling statements like this. In the 80s on a tour of China when meeting a group of British students studying in the country, he asked them, “How do you keep from getting slitty eyes?”
GANGgajang – This is Australia
Midnight Oil – Maralinga
Jack Canuck
Spent my Australia day playing inside with my son (4 and a half) for the morning while it rained, then park and finally beach with him and my wife before dinner. Pretty darn chilly wind coming onto Williamstown beach, I’ll tell you, but Edmund reeeeaaallly wanted to go to the beach. And since it’s back to work for me and my wife as the school year kicks in, he’s back in childcare starting tomorrow, so we wanted him to have a nice day.
Glad to hear the Taylor Swift thing was shot down, but I haven’t followed the countdown at all I’m afraid.
TheMightyTrowel
@Jack Canuck: to summarize: far more Chet Faker than is probably healthy and it wasn’t even his best song that came in at #1
Paul in KY
Best wishes to all our Australia friends!
kindness
Was Australia brutally invaded? Really? Brutally?
I admit the indiginous folk got kinda a raw deal out of it but….it isn’t as if any of the colonial powers were really nice to the new lands they tried to colonize.