DON'T WELCOME ME TO MY OWN COUNTRY
Anthony Albanese finally said what the Welcome to Country really means.
Asked to defend the ceremony, the Prime Minister compared Australia to someone else's home:
“If I come into your home, I'll knock on the door and I'll say, 'is it okay if I come in?', and you go, 'yeah, welcome'.”
Think about that.
In the Prime Minister's telling, Australia is a house. Some Australians own it.
And you – born here, working hard, paying your taxes, raising your family here – are a visitor at the door, asking permission to come in.
You don't knock on your own front door.
You don't ask permission to enter your own home.
And you don't need to be welcomed to your own country.
Yet the ceremony is everywhere. At the footy. At work. Before your plane lands. You hear it more than the national anthem now.
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price said it plainly:
“Australians don't need to be welcomed to their own country.”
She's right.
Australia is your home too.
Sign the petition below to end Welcome to Country.
To the Prime Minister of Australia
I don’t need to be welcomed to my own country.
And I’m with my fellow Australians, who are fed up with having the Welcome to Country constantly pushed onto us by activists, elites, bureaucrats and politicians.
It’s constant, it’s unnecessary and it makes me feel unwelcome in my own country.
It’s clear that this is an activist-led push to attack Australia’s history and values
And it’s ridiculous that Australians have to fund this divisive ceremony at a time when people are struggling.
The Welcome to Country is unfair, un-Australian and unwanted.
It’s time to drop the ceremony.
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