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Perspective: Why I think Australia Day should be abolished


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As a Black woman in this country, it is hard to demand that my Black life should matter when for 233 years it never has.
Protesting Australia Day is an anti-colonial movement, a movement that calls for our country to exist independently, with treaties acknowledging the Sovereignty of First Nations peoples; and completely separate from the British Empire. We cannot continue to overlook the gruesome invasion by the British Empire and the disregard for Black life throughout its illegal occupation to date.
2021 marks 30 years since the Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody; and statistics tell us that over 440 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died at the hands of police or corrections since 1991 - yet not one conviction. ....

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