Officially, it’s known as Australia Day. But some prefer to call it “Invasion Day”.
In recent years, some Indigenous people and their supporters have flown the Aboriginal flag at half-mast and worn black clothing on Australia Day to mourn their ancestors. Their actions reflect a call by many to change the date of Australia Day or abolish the celebrations.
Sadly we cannot change the past, but we can move forward together 🫂
I understand. Thank you. In some regard, that's similar to thoughts on Columbus Day / Indigenous People's Day here.
Exactly, I don’t like how we are divided here with this.
My family are immigrants to Oz, I was born in Europe and came here when I was 18 months old. My family has always celebrated this day as being grateful for allowing us to live here, for the opportunity and new life it gave us 💜
My understanding from 19th century novels was that Britain shipped prisoners off to Australia to get rid of them (or give them a second chance, depending on how you look at it) - so the early colonists were not exactly voluntary.
Yes but some of them didn’t treat the indigenous people with any respect and sadly made slaves out of them.
