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RAP NEWS 11: Australia Day

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It’s a day of high jinx, high revelry and high people in Australia; a day when a large and vocal majority come together to “celebrate what’s great” about this country. But what is the meaning of all this fanfare? What is the true origin of this passionately marked day of facepaint and binge drinking? Is everyone in Australia so keen on this particular anniversary? To get to bottom of these questions, and more, join your amiable host Robert Foster as he conducts a high-octane, high-frequency satellite link-up with a representative of the Mainstream Australian media: multi-Logie award-winning broadcaster, entertainer, emu-wrangler and true blue Aussie, Kenneth Oathcarn. WARNING: contains adult Australian vernacular – viewer discretion is strongly advised.

Written, produced and performed by
Hugo Farrant (Robert Foster) & Giordano Nanni (Ken Oathcarn).

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Writer, Surfer and Web developer. Born in Yorkshire, grew up in Zambia and Australia before coming back to West Yorkshire England. Escaped from Yorkshire and like lots of flotsam and jetsam, found my way to Cornwall. I am a self-humorist, I tried self-hate but its just too dark and gothy for me. I just humour myself and take the piss generally. :-) I became interested in News and Journalism, when journalism became so woefully inadequate & lacking in quality. Well to call what you see on the TV news is false and an insult to seekers of the truth. What purports to be news is in fact, stinking PROPaGANDA dressed in designer skirts to appear like free press journalism. Since then, I have started researching and writing myself, in the pursuit of truth and understanding. I am not saying I am a particularly great journalist or writer but if you can’t express yourself then what is the point of living?
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  1. I never understood Australia day. The empty reasons why we celebrate it are ‘catchphrased’ each year by media and politicians. Government website suggests on this day we ‘celebrate our nationhood’ – whatever that means. We have no common identity, no traditions, no principles. We can’t even celebrate it as partial escape from colonialism as we have never had the courage to seek it. We have always been nothing more than a vassal state for Western hegemony (British first, now American).

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