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Amnesia Day | Honest Government Ad (Patreon)

Published:
2019-01-21 10:25:42
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2019-01-21 23:25:50
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2026-06
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Dear Patrons, happy new year and welcome to our first video of 2019 - freshly published this morning! 

This is a topic close to my heart.

As those who watched my end of year video might recall, prior to dedicating myself to the craft of impersonating fuckwitted Governments, I completed a phd in history (Australian colonial history, to be more specific). So as you can imagine, I've been wanting to cover this topic in an Honest Government Ad for some time.

(As always, if you want to skip my long-arsed rant and just want to watch the video, you'll find the links at the bottom. Otherwise, here's some thoughts I wanted to share with you about this video.)

Back in 2012 we produced a classic episode of our previous series, Rap News, on the topic of Australia Day - (I'll share the link below). If you saw it, you'll recognise the character I played in that video, Ken Oathcarn - who makes a brief appearance in this Honest Government Ad. You might also recognise the term "Amnesia Day" - which I came up with in that Rap News episode and decided to re-deploy in this latest HGA.

Anyway, back then when we made that Rap News video, there were ZERO videos on YouTube covering Australia Day from a comedic and critical angle. Well, apart from a couple of videos poking fun at bogans. Meh. That Rap News episode was the first Australia Day video of its kind. Today it's a completely different story: each year there are new videos engaging critically with Australia Day. Which is really promising; it shows that, together with the huge marches on the streets of our capital cities, the cultural tide is slowly but surely changing. 

Sure, as many are pointing out, changing the date by itself will not fix all the problems facing Indigenous Australia.

But why should those two things be mutually exclusive? Surely we can aim to do both. In fact, I reckon they will go hand in hand; coz when a majority of Australia understands that celebrating our national day on January 26 is messed-up, we will also be close to collectively having the level of historical understanding required to meaningfully address the problems facing Indigenous Australia - starting by adopting some, if not all, of the recommendations of the Uluru Statement from the Heart - a brief and eloquent document which I strongly encourage you all to read (I'll post this link below, too).

As I said when we posted the preview: I know some of you will disagree with me on this issue. But that's okay - we don't have to agree on everything (just most things!). And I kinda like knowing that we're not all just engaging in some big groupthink exercise here. So if you're sceptical, I hope you'll indulge us by giving it a listen with an open mind. We made it not because we hate Australia - as some might say. But on the contrary, because we love Australia (and want it to be better).

IN OTHERRRR NEWS:

A warm welcome to the 148 (!) new Patrons who joined us over the new-year period - you've given us an awesome boost to kick off 2019! And to all the legends who supported us in 2018, 2017 (or even 2016!) thank you so much for sticking with us. We couldn't have gotten here without you.

I hope you all managed to have some quality rest time over the xmas and new-year period, and that you're ready for 2019. We sure are, and I can't wait to get stuck into our fuckwitted Government ahead of the upcoming federal election :)

Catch you all for the next video soon!

Giordano + team

THE LINKS: 

- Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaA0hZ406YY

- Facebook video: https://www.facebook.com/thejuicemedia/videos/312515069377395

- Twitter video: https://twitter.com/i/status/1087183556680400896

- Uluru Statement From The Heart: https://www.commongrace.org.au/the_uluru_statement_from_the_heart

- Rap News: Australia Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRhBRg-XkWY (language warning!)

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Comments

John L Smith

Great video, and the RAP News one was excellent too. Unfortunately hasn't dated at all.

Mark

"Celebrate, ya pieces of shit!"

Michael Cohen

Well done. Over here in the US we're working on Columbus Day too.

Raimond Gaita

Rai Gaita. Well done!! I feel passionately about this too. I hope it won't seem presumptuous if I paste a section of a lecture I gave recently:

Raimond Gaita

I keep forgetting you can't press return without going into the ether. Here goes: Some years ago, an Aboriginal friend from Queensland took me to some of the sacred sites of his country. ‘Country’ in Aboriginal English is a word with spiritual resonances informed by the relation of particular Aboriginal clans (mobs they call themselves) to territories in parts of Australia. His name is Col McLennan, and he features as Bo in Alex Miller’s prize-winning novel Journey to the Sone Country. One day Col said to me, “I’ve shown you my country. It’s time for you to show me yours. He knew from reading Romulus and from conversation how deeply rooted I am in Central Victoria. My wife, Yael and I have a property of 147 acres (159 hectares) only eight kilometres from where I grew up. Coll was viscerally affected by the landscape and its boulders. When he saw a granite boulder over ten metres high, striking for the way it dominated a hill, I saw the awe in his face and his entire demeanour, a response to his sense of its spiritual significance to the Djadjawurrung people who had lived in the area before white settlement. I noted thee tenderness with which he spoke of an undercut boulder which he believed was almost certainly a birthing cave. His visit made Yael and I painfully aware to a degree we has not been before, that ethically speaking we were not owners of the land from which the Aboriginal peoples had been dispossessed, but temporary custodians of it, their absence now, uncannily haunting. But, Yael and I were also grateful that he had no wish to withdraw his description of this part of Victoria as my ‘country’, with all the spiritual resonances he had intended that description of carry. After that day Col and I spoke differently to one another, in voices determined by our histories and by our newly understood – in my case transformed - relations to land that we loved. It could not have been otherwise if we were to faithful to our friendship and therefore truly answerable to one another. No one knows where such conversations could take relations between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples. Obviously, parameters cannot be set in advance nor by one party. At present in Australia it is generally assumed that even the highest aspirations of the indigenous peoples were realised, they would be contented to be Australians. But no one can say what would happen if, through such conversations – radical conversations, in the sense of going to the roots - non-indigenous Australians understood better how aboriginal peoples experienced the crimes committed against them. We cannot know how that understanding should inform the ways that aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples will be able to say ‘“we”, truthfully and justly, in political fellowship. It might not be ‘we Australians’. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NamzVL9bj0E" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NamzVL9bj0E</a>

thejuicemedia

Thanks Raimond! And thank you for sharing this lecture with us - I've started watching the video and I'm already hooked :)