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Christmas makes a comeback in Australia
Dec 21, 2009, 4:36 GMT
Sydney - Sydney suburbs sick of the city centre's religion-free Christmas decorations are fighting back against political correctness with banners and bunting wishing residents a Merry Christmas rather than the generic Season's Greetings, news reports said Monday.
'Our community is fed up with this erosion of the true meaning and essence of Christmas through this ridiculous pre-emptive surrender of Christmas on the basis it may offend someone,' Parramatta Council spokesman Michael McDermott told the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
McDermott railed against 'politically correct nonsense and watering down of the historically accurate view of Christmas.'
In previous years, Parramatta has taken its cue from the City of Sydney and kept religious references out of its Christmas celebrations.
Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore explained that her council was 'just trying to keep a generic approach without trying to push any one religious belief.'
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