Because my ex of 3 years told me she wanted to focus on school but ended up with another guy the day after she told me that . <| sep |> Setting them up on shitty tracts of land and then fucking them over with treaties isn ' t oppression ? We literally took the land from them , quarantined them , and then when shit went south on the reservations , we just shrug . <| sep |> Some context and background because most don ' t want to know it and it ' s fun banging your head on a brick wall . Some years back , let ' s say between 10 and 15 or so , the then mayor of Freo Peter Tagliaferri decided that it might be a good idea to hold a small relatively fireworks display off the Freo coastline as an alternative to the much larger ' Skyworks ' show that Perth has held for close to 30 years over the river next to the city , on Australia Day . Back then the Perth fireworks show was besieged with social problems as it was so popular the crowds were hard to control and to ensure a seat , people were setting up camp early in the morning and spending the day in the Perth summer sun cooking slowly and cooling off with multiple bevvies . as you do . Recipe for disaster and eventually it got that way , so Mayor ' Tags ' idea , while being scorned by the Lord Mayor of the time proved to be a popular alternative and the Lord Mayor ' s attempted slur in calling it Cracker Night became the event ' s adopted name . It got to be so popular Freo was gridlocked for a couple of hours afterwards because , of course being Perth , everyone wanted to drive to it . one of the problems with the Skyworks show . I was lucky enough to live on the coast at the time and would sit on the porch when home and watch the carnage unfold in front of me . anyway , there ' s always been a certain degree of unease around the whole Australia Day theme locally and consultation with local elders and key figures has led to the decision to stop holding the fireworks show and a few other activities during the day , shifting to two days later with a free concert and associated activities . One Noongar leader not resident in Freo has been outspoken in his condemnation . but the main media outlets haven ' t chased up with any of the local elders supporting the move . As I said earlier , they haven ' t ' changed Australia Day ' because they cant and wouldn ' t . They ' ve acted in accordance with the wishes of the local community , many of whom are European background and not indigenous and gone for a low key holiday . and the ' traditional ' fireworks show is hardly a tradition , it ' s a habit of maybe 15 years standing at the most . Storm in a teacup . which is par for the course when white people in Australia think they ' re losing something to indigenous people .