By Uli Schmetzer
Tribune Foreign Correspondent
December 30, 2000
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But you have to have a party! :eek: How can you NOT have a party? :eek: :eek:
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I am having a party. Why do I need a lame excuse like a bunch of old farts 100 years ago deciding to formalise something that was so bloody obvious that virtually nobody at the time actually gave a rats?
The 200th anniversary of European settlement back in '88 was a big party, but people actually saw that as actually being historically significant. This is just a minor historical footnote. Australia functioned as Australia long before federation.
I can think of a dozen better reasons to party without even trying. In fact I’m going to indulge one right now.