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2. Minding Our Language. Minding Our Language. Part 1 Click for next

3. Few people understand the deep psychological importance of using accurate language Click for next

4. especially as it applies to rescuingthe precious Australia we inherited and are now rapidly losing. Click for next

5. Australia Day 2011 presents us with a perfect opportunity to wiselyreconsiderone of ourmost-used,most favouredexpressions. Click for next

6. PROUDTO BE ANAUSTRALIAN! PROUDTO BE ANAUSTRALIAN! Click for next

7. The most common dictionary definition of the word “Proud” is…… Click for next

8. 1. arrogant. Click for next

9. 2. belief in one's superiority. Click for next

10. 4. arrogant rudeness. Click for next

11. 3. overbearing, self-important. Click for next

12. Wisdom from long ago tells us that….

13. “Pride cometh before the fall.”

14. and therefore….

15. “NATIONAL pride comethbefore a NATION’S fall.” Click for next

16. Let this year’s Ashesbe a perfect example and a sombre warning lesson to thosewho are unthinkinglyarrogant… Click for next

17. Let this year’s Ashesbe a perfect example and a sombre warning lesson to thosewho are unthinkinglyarrogant… Click for next

18. The bigger the pride, the harder the fall

19. The bigger the pride, the harder the fall Click for next

20. For these reasons And for Australia’s sake,I urge every true Australianto make a2011 Australia Dayresolution tonever again be.. Click for next

21. “Proud” to be an Australian.

22. “Proud” to be an Australian.

23. but instead,

24. Honoured to be an Australian. Honoured Click for next

25. 1. to hold in high respect; to revere: Click for next

26. 2. to show a courteous regard for. Click for next

27. or, if you prefer, let’s be….

28. Grateful to be an Australian. Click for next

29. I love a sunburnt country, I love a sunburnt country,

30. I love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains, I love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains,

31. I love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains,Of ragged mountain ranges, I love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains,Of ragged mountain ranges,

32. I love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains,Of ragged mountain ranges,Of droughts and flooding rains.I love her far horizons, I love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains,Of ragged mountain ranges,Of droughts and flooding rains.I love her far horizons, Click for next

33. I love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains,Of ragged mountain ranges,Of droughts and flooding rains.I love her far horizons,I love her jewel-sea,Her beauty and her terror -The wide brown land for me! Dorothy McKeller - 1904 I love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains,Of ragged mountain ranges,Of droughts and flooding rains.I love her far horizons,I love her jewel-sea,Her beauty and her terror -The wide brown land for me! Click for next

34. Many might think all this talk about precise language is just “nit picking” It is absolutely not. Click for next

35. There are deep psychological reasons why using accurate language is important. People who argue this fact demonstrate their regrettable ignorance.

36. There are deep psychological reasons why using accurate language is important. People who argue this fact demonstrate their regrettable ignorance. Click for next

37. The ignorance of far too many in our society is a MAJOR reason why we are losing the Australia we love. Click for next

38. add pride (arrogance) andthe result is socially-destructiveignorant arrogance. Click for next

39. add pride (arrogance) andthe socially-deadly combinationof ignorant arrogance manifests. Click for next

40. A nation that expects to be ignorant and yet remain civilised and free, expects what never was and never will be. Thomas Jefferson 1796 Click for next

41. The Fall of the Roman Empire The decline and fall of the Roman Empire was as much due to the internal disintegration of the ties that bind a society together as to the assaults by Rome’s external enemies. The privilege and sense of duty of being a Roman citizen was destroyed by cheapening that citizenship by freely giving it to too many other people. Click for next

42. A critically important sense ofduty and responsibility had eroded among the Romans. Without that, the Roman Empire could not survive. Without that, Australia also will not survive. Tangible wealth and power are not enough to save a nation. The tangibles do not work without the intangibles." - Thomas Sowell (adapted) Click for next

43. Our national way of thinkingis one of the important‘intangibles’currently damaging toour nation’s wellness.True Australians from times pasthad a different, more humbleand realistic way of thinking.Their way of thinking, not ours,built the fantastic Australia that we inherited. Click for next

44. A conscious and deliberatechange in our thinking willchange our national attitude, Click for next

45. and give us a far greatersense ofduty and responsibility , therefore making us farmore capable of rescuing and protecting our national culture, our heritage and our civilisation. Click for next

46. Changing the words we use will change our thinkingand our attitudes. For the better! Click for next

47. When people are humble and grateful [ and NOT arrogantly proud ] they are more appreciative of what they have. Click for next

48. They will be far more awareof what they stand to lose…. Click for next

49. …and will be far more willing to protect it. Click for next

50. Changing the words we use will change our thinkingand our attitudes. Click for next