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Thousands of Australians defied coronavirus rules to protest the country's national day, held on the anniversary of British colonisation of the vast continent that its Indigenous population marks as "Invasion Day".

A new poll has revealed just how many Australians support changing the date of Australia Day from January 26 – and how many don’t.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has acknowledged Australia Day is a ‘day of pain’ for many, despite her own reluctance to change the date.

Footage of the incident at an Invasion Day rally held in Sydney on Tuesday morning shows the two men in an argument before the activist grabs the phone of the other man.

Wednesday, 27 January 2021, 6:04 am The International Indigenous Peoples’ Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL) stands in solidarity with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, the Indigenous Peoples of Australia, in their call for justice. This day, January 26, marks the painful and violent history of British colonization, land and cultural dispossession for the Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples. Contrary to the usual festivities of Australia Day, the day when the First F...

Scott Morrison says there is no escaping or cancelling Australia’s history and January 26 represents the day the land “changed forever”. 

Five people were arrested in Sydney in largely peaceful Australia Day protests on Tuesday with thousands defying public health concerns and rallying across the nation against the mistreatment of the Indigenous people.

Scott Morrison says there is no escaping or cancelling Australia’s history and January 26 represents the day the land “changed forever”. 

Pictures taken throughout the day on Tuesday show crowds packed into Gordons Bay, disregarding Covid-related social distancing orders.

Today will be a significant date for Australians in Ireland – it is Australia Day in a special year. 2021 marks 80 years Robert Gordon Menzies, our longest serving Prime Minister visited Eamon de Valera in Dublin, and 75 years since the establishment of formal relations between the Government of Australia and the then soon-to-be proclaimed Irish Republic. The creation of diplomatic relations in 1946 was illustrative of the deep and very personal ties between our two island nations which have ...