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Share There was also no mention of Australias Indigenous people in the Xanadu actress captions of her Instagram and Twitter posts either.  The seemingly accidental omission was quickly noticed by several of her followers, including one who tweeted the Australian Aboriginal flag, and wrote: Oh girl, I love you but read the room.  No pride in genocide, Liv: There was no mention of Australias Indigenous people on her Instagram and Twitter posts You are now cancelled Olivia! How dare you love Aus...

For global readers, many still in the grip of the pandemic, headlines including "Thousands defy Covid rules in protests" and "Thousands expected to protest Australia Day despite COVID-19 concerns" led the way for some heated discussion. The date of Australia Day, January 26, remains controversial as it marks the day the First Fleet sailed into Sydney Cove in 1788 formally declaring the land as British despite Indigenous peoples having lived on the land for centuries.   Australia Day, a ho...

Communications Minister Paul Fletcher has slammed the ABC for interchangeably describing Australia Day as Invasion Day in a public holiday events guide for January 26.

The ABC has defensively backed down from describing Australia Day as Invasion Day following a complaint from the communications minister.  The national broadcaster published an online events guide on Sunday interchangeably using a politically contentious term to describe the January 26 public holiday commemorating the British First Fleets 1788 arrival in Sydney Cove. Communications Minister Paul Fletcher spoke out against this ABC article.  The ABC online article is incorrect about Australia ...

The ABC has quietly removed the words "Invasion Day" from a headline on an article about Australia Day events after senior government figures attacked the national broadcaster. Up until late this morning, a piece on celebrations and protests on January 26 was headlined "Australia Day/Invasion Day 2021 events", sparking upset among some Coalition MPs and conservative commentators. However, at lunchtime, the article became "Australia Day is a contentious day for many. Here are the events being...

WA Labor senator under fire for claiming Australia Day ‘celebrates white supremacy’ We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement A West Australian Labor Senator has come under fire over a sponsored social media post where she labelled Australia Day a celebration of white supremacy and called for the date to be changed. In a post on her official Facebook page, Senator Sue Lines said it was time Australia st...

Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon has joined the slew of political figures addressing the ABC's controversial "Invasion Day" promotion, slamming the language as "disappointing" and detrimental to the meaning of Australia Day. The taxpayer-funded broadcaster has faced heavy backlash for promoting big ticket “Australia Day/Invasion Day events” in an online article and on Twitter. One of the major events slated for Australia Day was an Invasion Day rally at the Domain to push ...

After sticking to its guns on a controversial Australia Day article which mentioned Invasion Day, the ABC has made a dramatic change.

The controversial topic traditionally dominates headlines and sparks division among Australians in the first weeks of every calendar year leading up to the national public holiday.

Advertisement Australians have plenty to celebrate on Australia Day. Unfortunately, every year we find ourselves debating whether one distinction in particular – our choice of date for our national day – is worth celebrating at all. National days around the world typically mark the anniversaries of national achievements such as the birth of the American republic on July 4, 1776, the confederation of Canada’s provinces on July 1, 1867, or New Zealand’s Waitangi Treaty with Ma...