Trying to do the right thing…

So last night, on the Seven News in Sydney, reporter Damien Smith tried to do the right thing in terms of observing the cultural complexities of Australia Day and failed miserably.

Spoken while standing on the shore of Sydney Harbour, the Opera House in the background - ‘Ever since the white settlers sailed through here 220 years ago, the harbour has been admired for it’s beauty.’

So, points for calling the first fleet ‘the white settlers’ and trying to be sensitive to Indigenous Australians, but FAIL for thinking they hadn’t admired the beauty of the harbour for the centuries before white man arrived.