This whole process of corporate Australia pandering to the woke community is getting totally out of hand
Woolworths Dumps Australia Day Merchandise
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How are people so poorly educated in this country they don't actually know what baby boomer means. Boomers were my parents generation and let me assure you they are woke af
People that would answer a poll run by Yahoo News Australia like to buy tacky Australia Day merch, go figure.
Actually it is probably worse than that. I bet they don’t buy the stuff but they want to force a shop to sell it. Very communist of them.
How has that got anything to do with communism? It's popularist right wing propaganda
I would have thought it would have swayed on the side of cheap crap. After all we are here because we love a bargain.
The issue is that no one bought the stuff. This is a business decision pure and simple. If all those people voting against Woolworths actually BOUGHT the stuff they were flogging, we wouldn't be here.
BUT they didn't because Australia Day has an image issue - it's always been seen as "bogan".
The solution is to re-brand. Think to the US. Their 2 big "nation celebrating" days are 4th July and Memorial Day. Both based on what are effectively ideological conquests.
We really have nothing similar except our celebration of ANZACS and the legends spun around ANZAC spirit.
Maybe we should make ANZAC day the new Australia Day?
OR what about celebrating the Eureka Stockade and turning that into our new national day? Some argue that is when our spirit of Democracy was born.Love the fact that this poll has now turned around. For 3 days it was turning towards the sound bite BS churned out by Dutton & his hate gang.
Now, after Aldi has also chimed in & people begin to understand that the Woolies decision was nothing to do with patriotism, but about turnover, the poll now slants towards the true patriots, the ones who don’t listen to Dutton rhetoricAll about turnover, did you read their press statement? They gave 2 reasons. One financial, the other due to cultural sensitivities surrounding Australia Day.
People can choose whatever side they wish but to suggest it was purely a financial decision is inaccurate.I don’t think you understand the spectrum of things that make up a financial decision. Why sell something that is unprofitable and risks reputational damage with a bunch of your customers? Why not acknowledge the date is controversial, because it is. In the long run I suspect the Australian people will realise the current date is all about NSW and we will pick another date. Then, like same sex marriage, people will wonder what the big whoop was about. All they want is a public holiday and an excuse to eat and drink with their mates.
Frankly cheap overseas tat that becomes landfill is an insult to Australia. So you want to walk on our flag in thongs. Or wear our flag on your underwear? Or snot on it with masks? The fact we even have the flag on a foreign country on our flag is nauseating. Maybe it is time we grew up.
Maybe we could change this to the date for Cleanup Australia Day. Cleaning up our country would be a much more useful way to respect our country than polluting it.
If you think these multi-billion companies care about anything other than profits, you're delusional. It doesn't matter what their statement says, they're simply covering their bases so people don't think they're all about profit.
Woolworths has a first nation's advisory board. I'm sure their contribution to the business isn't profitable in a pure economic sense.
It's just that when you turn a billion dollar profit you can afford to burn a few million here and there on social projects. Pride week, yes campaign etc.
not sure who decided to celebrate Australia day on 26th January but in my opinion if Australia really want to celebrate Australia day then it could be 9th July … When Queen Victoria signed this document on 9 July 1900 the Bill providing for the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia became law, enacting the Australian Constitution and the founding of the Commonwealth…. celebrating on 26th January is just blatant ignorance to what actually happened on that day and it is an effort to intentionally change history… in my opinion…..
Lefty-aligned corporates using a national holiday to virtue signal, who wouldve thought. Reminds me of the VOTE YES crap Qantas plastered on their planes just last year. Didnt end well for that CEO either. I can imagine the Facebook / Linekdin / emails the CEO of Woolworths has received the recent weeks. Maybe this will be his downfall and other big shots learn a thing or two
Lefty-aligned corporates
Corporates are, by definition, right-aligned.
What a word salad of rightwing tropes. Time you learnt some clear thinking and how to express ideas properly. Fortunately most of Australia doesn't spend their time hoovering up nonsense on rightwing websites.
The reason that the CEO of Qantas was booted out was because he made crap business decisions that aligned with rightwing make a buck at any cost ideology. His company sold seats on flights they had already cancelled and he was offering rubbish customer service when they stranded people. Frankly his money grubbing ways finally caught up with him.
If you got out of your ideological bubble you would know that.
Didnt end well for that CEO either.
I'm sure Allan Joyce is crying in his multi-million dollar mansion while swimming in a pool of cashh.
I'm all for celebrating Australia Day if/when the government gets around to changing the date.
Piss off outta the country then ya zealot
A quick scan of your posts shows you to be the very definition of a zealot.
No, I won't. Why are you so fixated on one particular date? Maybe you are the one who is in fact the zealot.
Australia Day is January 26. You can either love it or leave. Nothing more to it!
I'll be celebrating with the rest of my neighbourhood. For good measure, ill greet them all with "happy invasion day"
Anyone still upset can go jump.@BlahBlahBlaah: So your way or the highway huh? It celebrates the arrival of a bunch of convicts and the raising of a British flag in NSW. Yeah that really screams something we should be commemorating doesn’t it? If it wasn’t for the fact that January first is already a public holiday we would, already, be celebrating when we became a Federated nation instead.
@BlahBlahBlaah: I'll be sure to protest extra hard and donate to Indigenous organisations in your name. Imagine being "happy" about an invasion, clearly lacking in empathy and humanity.
@dmence90: Why bother? Not like our indigenous will ever be grateful for anything coming from a "white fella."
On January 26, 1788, Arthur Phillip, who had sailed into what is now Sydney Cove with a shipload of convicts, hoisted the British flag at the site.
Do some of you really think this is want we should be celebrating as Australia day? Of all the things in our history it should be this? England dumping their convicts and somebody raising a British flag?
And you want to celebrate it by forcing a company to sell tat made overseas? Honestly people buy a clue.
I agree.
Australia doesn't have a "day" to celebrate.
Australia has no independence or Republic day, or anything similar to celebrate.
Australia got into wars but didn't have to fight to keep its sovereignty.
Maybe when we become a Republic…
Australia doesn't have a "day" to celebrate.
Federation date would be fine, but the selfish bastards did that on something that's already a public holiday.
How very dare they. Don't they understand that the Public Holiday is sacred to Australians?
Apparently America celebrates when they got rid of the Poms running them and we are celebrating when the Poms raised a flag in NSW. FFS.
Needed a third option of "Wouldn't buy that crap anyways".
I want my plastic bags back
I want milk that tastes like real milk.
There are microdairies in Melbourne that might be able to help you there. However, you can still buy non homogenised at the Supermarkets. As kids we used to fight for the cream at the top to go on our rice bubbles. Legally you can’t get non pasteurised milk because it might have beasties that make you sick.
You might have to buy a cow…
Seems like a problem in a townhouse in the city. lol
No you can’t. Unless you can create a product that is stable enough to use and then degrades down to harmless components. Off you toddle and invent them, the rest of us are waiting.
Do people listen to themselves? So anything you don't agree with is suddenly "woke"? and anything "woke" is bad? Why not just say what you mean instead of using words you don't truly understand? What you meant to say was "I don't like that society is progressing in a different direction to where I stand to the the point where my values are now seen as outdated and even in some instances immoral. It makes me feel old and irrelevant, the same exact feelings the older generation probably felt when I was young and idealistic but (profanity) those assholes, I was right they were wrong, my gripe with the younger generations is different(it isn't)".
Society advances that the whole point, abolishing segregation was once a "woke" idea.
More importantly than one moral position. You act like Woolworth is making some financial Mistake by backing this "woke" idea. It isn't. Woolworth is first and foremost a business, if it thought for a second these "woke" values were going to cost them more money than the consequences of not progressing with the rest of the society, they wouldn't do it. Woolworth is a soul less, Capitalist entity, it not swayed by reasoning or morality, it is swayed by $$$. The fact it is now more $$$ effective for them to back this "woke" idea should tell you just where exactly your views sit in this world.
This is super accurate. In my experience, many people who use "woke" as a pejorative have little to no self-awareness at best and outright willful ignorance at worst. I have to tel myself that most are a product of a culture that has outward disdain for intelligence and free thinking instead of inherent selfishness and bigotry.
in a way, that is somewhat fitting for a word that was improperly used in the first place, to be later used in various improper ways.
Lets be honest, using the word "woke" was the equivalent of people from the 'riff using "bought" when they should be using "brought" ( e.g. "I bought me cartoon of beers from home" - while they likely were "bought" from teh shop, they were "brought" from home), or yanks who "drug the body through the woods" instead of dragged.
The misuse is getting dumber and dumber.
This from one of the tennis players in the AO.
Frustrated by the referee’s inability to quieten the crowd, an incredulous Thompson exclaimed: “Oh, my god. This is the wokest tournament ever.”.Do these people even listen to themselves?
Do you honestly think that ending segregation was a good thing? Look at America now, look at South Africa. There's a reason for its decline. Actually have a think and read about it. It's legitametely been terrible for those countries..
How do we even deal with someone who has this sort of mentality?
Just read brah. Look at the problems in the US and SA.
@BarginBrah: Just in case I am misinterpreting you. Segregation is a bad thing. Discriminating against a group based on their colour is unconscionable. I’m hoping you agree with these comments.
@BarginBrah: Segregation is discrimination. It is totally unacceptable and, frankly, a ludicrous way to try to run a country. The overheads of trying to run duplicate systems is economically unsound. People do not behave according to their colour nor their gender. Their potential certainly isn’t dictated by their colour. Look at the systems in place today and how ridiculous it would be to try to reinstate segregation. Imagine US sporting teams with separate black and white leagues. Go and tell a bunch of US football players they have to play in segregated teams and I will call the ambulance for you afterwards.
Maybe you need to do better research into what happened under segregation and what it legally meant. Again I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you haven’t really thought this through.
@try2bhelpful: You seem very ignorant of human nature and genetics. I don't know why you're going in about duplicate systems, they would simply be the one own system, for each different group. Society would thrive. Look at post segregation south Africa and US. It's absolutely terrible.
@BarginBrah: Right. I think everyone has got the picture about your views now. I think we will leave the discussion there.
@try2bhelpful: Brah, are you aware of the crime statistics in the US? The racial difference is huge. Do you really believe that South Africa is better off now than before? Give an honest answer. I'm just trying to have a discussion. Your seem close minded.
@BarginBrah: Your ignorance is astounding.
Segregation in both the USA and South Africa was entirely based on discrimination and oppression.
@jackspratt: Brah, are you aware of the crime statistics in the US? The racial difference is huge. Do you really believe that South Africa is better off now than before? Give an honest answer. I'm just trying to have a discussion. Your seem close minded.
@BarginBrah: Okay mate. Tell us exactly how segregation would work. So who gets to sit in the front of the bus? How do you sort out sporting leagues? How do you sort out work places? How do you sort out restaurants, theatres, schools, universities etc. Shouldn’t the brightest minds be going to the best places no matter what their skin colour?
A lot of the problems in America are due to entitled white poor trash, so do we segregate them off from society as well? Do we count how many teeth they have before they can be accepted into “polite society”? Do we look at the guys who harass women and segregate them as well, or is that free rein.
Why we are “close minded” because segregation is completely unfair and discriminatory. It is assuming that everyone in each group is the same, which is bullshit.
Frankly most women would be a lot better off if guys had a curfew of 10 o’clock and women got free rein after that time. We could go have a good time without the risk of being sexually assaulted. I’m sure you would agree to that, wouldn't you? The stats are very strong on who commits the violent crimes and it isn’t women. The vast majority of major crimes are committed by men so segregation makes a great deal of sense. I, sure you would agree to this.
779 votes agree with Woolworths
Looks like the gametes are out in force…….
Man if that comment was meant to burn it had about as much heat as a refrigerator.
The poll numbers are rigged !
What I checked a little earlier the "do not agree" votes were 850+ and over 150 ahead of the "agree" votes?Not surprised🙄
Neither of the sides have been over 850 votes.
Learn to accept reality.3 points to you lol
Hilarious. You started this train and now you are whining because it didn't go your way. Man, you sound like Trump.
Location
MelbourneHow original
I'm from Melbourne and I agree with your sentiment lmao
No I'm not from Queensland and you deleted your post.
Oh dear……
No, I said I was surprised you weren't from Queensland. That is a tad different. I deleted the post because I thought better of it. However, if you want to highlight it then fair enough.
@scooba: I'm not the one repeating "Oh Dear". I deleted my original post because I was giving you the benefit of the doubt. Apparently my original instincts were correct.
@try2bhelpful: No unfortunately you made a detrimental comment about Queenslanders and are now back peddling.
I thought people from Melbourne were better than that?
@scooba: Sorry if you misconstrued why I removed it. I read you were from NSW and didn't want to insult them. Frankly if you look at the history of Queensland politics they deserve being dissed. The US has the deep south and we have the deep north.
@try2bhelpful: Well that pretty awful of you to judge people from Queensland like that.
I'd say put the device down but 200000 comments is not far off hey?
@scooba: My suggestion is go do some research as to where some of the more reactionary politicians are located. Do some research on their history. They aren't the most progressive of thinkers.
My suggestion is you use your device to do a bit of research before you come back and post but I bet you won't.
@try2bhelpful: We all know the true nature of all politicians without having to look anything up….well some of us anyway.
Sleep tight
@try2bhelpful: I won't be reading anymore of your posts as you just dropped to another level.
Go and make a hot chocolate then go to bed.
Wake up tomorrow and reflect on the sweeping statement you made about Queenslanders and become a better person.
Night night……
@scooba: If you read more of my posts you might improve your comprehension level. You make a comment dissing Melbournians then get huffy when I point out what has happened in Queensland. Typical mob that thinks they can dish it up but can’t take it. Go to bed, mate, you need the rest. However, I bet you don’t keep your promise not to answer.
Something fishy for sure. I've been watching numerous polls and this is the first one I've seen with Woolworths supporters within cooee of the detractors,.let alone in front of them.
Care to elaborate?
You need to stop looking at the polls from News Corp. Most Australians don't give a shit when Australia day is. However, they really object to a private company being told they should sell tat that is made overseas. That is what countries run by dictators do.
Where did I say I watch anything from News Corp sweetheart?
@scooba: If you look at the alignment of my post I was replying to Shane034. Nothing to do with you sweetheart.
@try2bhelpful: I really don't need to put that much effort into such a low base post.
You really do fit the profile……sorry
@scooba: The profile of what? Someone who has a grasp of history and clear thinking. Well I will accept that. No need to be sorry for highlighting that.
may be someone's brain is rigged .. !
I do find it fascinating how some people behave when they are presented with evidence they are in the minority. Any excuse but the one they got it wrong. Obviously everyone in authority is conspiring against them, no matter how ludicrous that comment is.
As we’ve seen in America the inability of the certain groups to accept they are not the saviours of the people can have deadly consequences.
Now more than ever people need to not fall back on tropes but to think about things clearly and unemotionally. Look at the motives as well as the content. Look for meaningless trigger words instead of factual information. As much as possible assess the credibility of contributors and their motives. If some contributors feel threatened by this idea then we should be doubly suspicious.
Ok Donald
Well looks like the "woke" community as you call it, have won the poll.
Given that we are a democracy…
Aahhh, sorry OP. Things not working out for you?
You weren't the person they arrested in Brissie earlier today were you?Lots of people here getting angry because they can't buy stuff they were never going to buy anyway.
It’s even more bizarre than that. There are still a bunch of other stores they can still not buy it from.
It's a business, every decision they make is to improve their bottom line either directly or indirectly. They have done their market research, crunched the numbers, consulted with brand advisors. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they don't, end of the day shop where ever has the products you want. If they don't want to sell something, then better for other businesses.
Doesn't seem to be a difficult concept to grasp, does it?
But apparently it is for the conservative culture warriors, who want to see malign intent in every decision which doesn't fit their narrative of what the world should look like.
"Woke community"
Frankly if the Government of the day promised that Australia day was always tacked onto a weekend, so Australians got a long weekend for the holiday, the vast majority of Australians wouldn't give a toss what date it was on. Do we really think Australians are wedded to celebrating when a Pommy guy turned up with a boat load of Pommy convicts and raised a British flag? It wouldn't take much of a campaign to get the date kiboshed. We could start with just how unAustralian that all is. We can highlight how much people who celebrate this day are tied to the apron strings of the UK and are not only disregarding the Indigenous people but also everyone who has been a migrant since then. We can point out to an awful lot of people that they are being disrespected by this "celebration". We can highlight that the flag we currently have has the flag of a foreign nation on it. We could background it with music of the Barmy Army singing "get your shit stars off our flag". Being sneered at by the POMs doesn't play well with the average Australian.
The conversations are underway and, like single sex marriage, it is an issue whose time is fast coming. In the long run WW will do well from its stance.
I love the "things will never change" brigade. They might want to look at history, things are changing all the time.
You might get your wish when gen z is running the country, but it's a long way off.
https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/nearly-two-thirds-of-aust…
Funny how quickly things change once they start getting a head of steam. I’m sure a few years ago people were saying similar things about Same Sex Marriage. As I’ve said elsewhere, now the average Australian is saying big whoops.
@jackspratt: Yep. People that complain about things being woke.