Australian Venue Company (AVC), the company that owns more than 200 pubs nationwide, has issued an apology for the “confusion” over the recent announcement its venues would not be holding Invasion Day AKA Australia Day events this year.
If you opened any news app or paper today, you’d have seen how the top story of the day was the massive discourse over AVC’s decision not to hold events on January 26, due to the fact that day “causes sadness” for large portions of the community.
Naturally, this announcement was met calmly and rationally by Australians everywhere, and the national debate over if we should still commemorate the day that our nation was colonised took one step further.
Who am I kidding, of course that didn’t happen. You know exactly what happened.
Certain news outlets took the narrative that the fact 200 pubs wouldn’t hold certain events and turned it into a national outrage, concocted to infuriate exactly the type of people who gave themselves heart attacks last year when Woolies stopped selling Aussie flag budgie smugglers.
In response to the predictable and pathetic outrage peddling, the owners of AVC released a press statement on Monday afternoon to apologise for the confusion caused by the initial announcement.
“We can see that our comments on the weekend have caused both concern and confusion. We sincerely regret that – our purpose is to reinforce community in our venues, not divide it,” read the statement.
“It is not for us to tell anyone whether or how to celebrate Australia Day. We acknowledge that and we apologise for our comments. It certainly wasn’t our intention to offend anyone.”
The company then acknowledged the different views held by its employees and members.
“Whether you choose to celebrate Australia Day or not, everyone is welcome in our pubs, always,” continued the statement.
“We have been, and are always, open over Australia Day and we continue to book events for patrons.”
AVC did not reverse its policy on holding Australia Day-themed events, but merely apologised for the confusion. Despite this, certain outlets reported the apology as a “backflip”.
The apology was met with courtesy by the outraged boomers across the nation, who reflected on their own actions and sought forgiveness for being so quick to anger.
Like that’ll ever happen.
Instead, Steve Price, who took to The Project tonight to complain about — you guessed it! — “woke” corporations.
“Apology not accepted! When are these finger-waving woke corporations going to wake up to the fact we don’t want them to tell us what to do on Australia Day?” said the finger-waving 69-year-old.
Note that it wasn’t that the AVC’s 200 pubs were closed for the day, they just weren’t holding Australia Day-themed events.
Meaning that if anyone wanted to find a watering hole that was holding such events, they could go to one of the billion other pubs the country that are.
But no. Instead, every business in Australia must cater to people who pop a hernia every time they hear the words “Invasion Day” or “Welcome to Country”.
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