Scott Morrison said that January 26 “wasn’t a particularly flash day” for British convicts either. That’s a real thing to complain about that he came up with. Apparently there aren’t enough discussions about how convict life sucked because people keep overshadowing that with discussions of genocide.
Why did he say this incredibly insensitive thing to say in contrast with “there was a literal genocide of Indigenous people”? Because of fucking cricket.
Cricket Australia has decided to not use the words “Australia Day” for their January 26th Big Bash League match. Morrison decided to defend Invasion Day and its date by going “yeah, but white people were also once sad so like… let’s just not be divisive,” thus stirring up controversy. If Morrison cared about not being divisive he could actually do something to foster unity like changing the date to something less offensive.
Morrison said that Cricket Australia shouldn’t play politics (which is weirdly just a thing politicians say when they disagree with a company). Cricket Australia says it wasn’t political, it was just about being inclusive towards Indigenous people - something Morrison is not particularly familiar with.
Labor and Greens have both criticised Morrison which at this point is like shooting fish in a barrel.
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