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January 26 should mark a day of mourning to honour all the Aboriginal men, women and children massacred upon invasion of our country.

Published January 20, 2021 To sign up for our daily newsletter filled with the latest news, goss and other stuff you should care about, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or, bookmark the PEDESTRIAN.TV homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. For non-Indigenous Australians, January 26 has in recent years been celebrated as ‘Australia Day’; for Indigenous Australians, it’s Invasion Day – a day of mourning and protests. The date, which mark...

Federal MP Zali Steggall is pushing for councils in her Sydney electorate, and across Australia, to observe a minute of silence on Australia Day.

Premium Content A recent The information, based from an article on Veteranweb Network by Ray Payne OAM, which has been turned into a Facebook post spread across the internet (though the original article cannot be found by Google), states that the dates of the First Fleets arrival are wrong, and instead the celebration is based on the introduction of the Nationality and Citizenship Act, first enacted on January 26, 1948. Unfortunately, like so many things spread on the internet, the claim do...

Premium Content A recent The information, based from an article on Veteranweb Network by Ray Payne OAM, which has been turned into a Facebook post spread across the internet (though the original article cannot be found by Google), states that the dates of the First Fleets arrival are wrong, and instead the celebration is based on the introduction of the Nationality and Citizenship Act, first enacted on January 26, 1948. Unfortunately, like so many things spread on the internet, the claim do...

Australia Day has become the most controversial date in the calendar, polarising those who want to celebrate the arrival of the First Fleet on these shores and those who say it sparked an era of untold suffering for First Nation people. Now Zali Steggall, Warringah MP, has called for councils across Australia and in her electorate to include a one minutes silence on January 26, in recognition of indigenous Australian lives that have been lost since the first Europeans arrived. "There should ...

Indigenous affairs commentator Dr Anthony Dillion says changing the date of Australia Day wont fix the problems facing Aboriginal people.

January 26th has been a day of mourning and resistance for longer than “Australia Day” has been a public holiday. It marks the day Arthur Phillip falsely laid…

"Day of mourning": Calls to scrap Australia Day grow louder Every year, right before January 26, Australians clash over a date that some see as a celebration and others see it as a day of mourning. This year will be no different. The Australia Day public holiday has seen thousands of Aussies take to the streets to protest, as they call it Invasion Day. The Invasion Day rallies call for a changing of the date to reflect the fact that for some it represents more than the beginning of British colo...

Why January 26 is the best (and only) date to celebrate Australia, and it has nothing to do with the arrival of Captain Cook or the First Fleet.