{"id":853,"date":"2006-02-08T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/wordpress\/?p=853"},"modified":"2012-12-19T20:27:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T09:27:28","slug":"853","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"OSTRAY-YA DAY:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago while we were &#8216;celebrating&#8217; Australia day i had a funny feeling in my belly. As we walked around the harbour and the crowds of people something was niggling me, it wasnt until later in the day that i figured out what it was, it was anger. As we sat on the harbour wall i looked at the crowds, many of whom were draped in the Australian flag. I kept thinking &#8216;Why are you celebrating?&#8217; were\/are all those people happy with the way Australia is spiraling out of control into an almost conservative dictatorship?, the constant attacks on unions, gay rights, refugee&#8217;s, workplace relations etc etc.<\/p>\n<p>I dont know what angered me more, the fact that these people &#8216;wanted&#8217; to celebrate or the fact that they were too indifferent to care. All i know is &#8216;I&#8217; didnt feel like celebrating, how long before that changes? .. please dont let it be long, i cant stand to read too many more horror stories that our political reporting has become.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve attached a couple of letters from the paper i kept from early last year soon after Howard was elected again as our prime minister, these letters give me some sort of hope that i&#8217;m not alone in my thinking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5433\/55\/1600\/Letter1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5433\/55\/320\/Letter1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5433\/55\/1600\/Letter2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5433\/55\/320\/Letter2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago while we were &#8216;celebrating&#8217; Australia day i had a funny feeling in my belly. As we walked around the harbour and the crowds of people something was niggling me, it wasnt until later in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/?p=853\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[460,97,459,306,321,360,488,246,458,361,434,318,445,310,45,362,469,35,468,273,36,470],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adelaide","tag-australia","tag-brisbane","tag-camp","tag-dna-magazine","tag-fair-day","tag-food","tag-gay","tag-gold-coast","tag-guys","tag-kings-cross","tag-lesbian","tag-lost-gay-sydney","tag-mardi-gras","tag-melbourne","tag-men","tag-movies","tag-newtown","tag-porn","tag-retro","tag-sydney","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3833,"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/3833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}