Aussie Aussie Aussie? Some Of Us Still Are.

We play cricket in the summer, dressed in trousers and long sleeves while standing around in the stinking hot sun. We play rugby in the winter with just T-shirts and shorts in the freezing night air. In the summer we slave over hot barbecues in the middle of the day. That's part of what makes us Australian.

We drop everything at our paid & air conditioned jobs to go fight bush fires with no thought of reward. We ski behind boats on crocodile infested rivers and swim in shark infested oceans. That's part of what makes us Australian.

We laugh when people fall, then we help them up. We welcome new neighbours whatever their heritage and are always keen to lend a hand.
That's part of what makes us Australian.

We'll try anything once. We'll give it a go until we're blue in the face. We'll do it the hard way if we know the hard way works. That's part of what makes us Australian.

If you lost a limb to a shark then got back on the surf board... if you got bitten by a dog and accepted that you probably deserved it... if you look after your own when they need more than others... if you're willing to give when you have nothing to spare... if you have a drink in remembrance on ANZAC Day... if you celebrate Christmas and Easter even though you're not religious... if you want your five cents change from the pizza boy but drop the last of your coins in the bar worker's tip jar... if you can take a joke and laugh at yourself...

...that's part of what makes you Australian.


But if you sit on your backside all day, refuse to do the grunt work and then complain about immigrants stealing our jobs that's part of what makes you lazy and weak.

If you eat Indian curries, Turkish kebabs, Mexican tacos, Italian pasta, and then tell the foreigners to go back to where they came from that's part of what makes you xenophobic and racist.

If you treat ANZAC Day as a cause for celebration instead of commemoration... if you're opposed to homosexuals, bisexuals & transsexuals just because they're different... if you can't tolerate our multicultural society...

Then maybe the true blue Aussies who have come from all over the world don't want you here. Perhaps the yuppies in the city and the bushies from the outback are sick of you flying our flag while spouting your prejudices. Maybe we, the fair dinkum Australians, would like you to stop labelling your Neo-Nazi fascism as Aussie pride and piss off back you came from!