Submitted by Paul Daley on
For Matt Chun, the national ritual is fraudulent and indefensible and he wants visitors to his cafe in the coastal town of Bermagui to know it
When Matt Chun displayed a chalkboard sign labelling Australia Day “national dickhead day” outside his New South Wales coastal cafe a year ago he didn’t anticipate the visceral backlash, including dozens of death threats, his words would incite.
But on the eve of the next Australia Day and amid heightened debate about the national holiday marking European invasion, occupation and settlement, Chun is defiant, resilient – and neither repentant nor regretful.
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The last voicemail threat was only a few days ago
The status quo is a deliberate, annual reassertion of colonialism
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My relationship with my town has changed irreversibly
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