The WugulOra Morning Ceremony was held at Gudjyi , a place where Eora women once paddled their canoes to catch fish and collect shellfish.
She drew comparisons to the 1789 smallpox epidemic which killed significant numbers of Indigenous people. Celebrations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture will be held across the country, including the Yabun Festival in Sydney, as well as multiple protests. Another Captain Cook statue in Edinburgh Gardens, in the inner north Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy North, was also covered in red paint overnight.In Central Victoria, hundreds gathered by Lake Wendouree for Ballarat's third annual Survival Day dawn service which aims to recognise the impact of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
"I'm hopeful by the time my children grow up, and are having those conversations, they're picking up a different chapter of that story." "I think the issues that we face as a country are so great, we need to focus on those [first],” she said.Kaurna elders hosted a traditional smoking ceremony on the banks of the River Torrens.
Clearly 26 Jan is not fit for purpose, Time to pick a date that unifies, 27 May is the day in 1967 that Australians voted so that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were counted in the population and the Commonwealth could make laws for them - seems a perfect symbol of unity
Beautiful.
Idea: Reset Australia Day to a floating day. The last Monday in January. Celebrate Matthew Finders and First Nations crewman Bungaree in the first circumnavigation of the continent. Celebrate Flinders naming the country 'Australia' on his chart of the coastline. Simple. Historic.
Happy Australia Day
Good read but the title of this article.. seriously? 🤦🏻♀️
Very hot weather today
The European went all over the world interfered in other people's development...
“Why do we celebrate Australia Day?” …today’s day would be offensive to the true custodians of this land and my heart goes out to them. Imagine the Turkish community in Australia throwing parties during Anzac Commemorations (whilst the diggers are at memorial service).
Change the bloody DATE.
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im with you all brothers and sisters of the earth
Please change the day..... If we are truely to be an inclusive nation.
Happy Australia Day🇦🇺🙂
'One mob' Not a very nice way to describe how we feel about being united. It's going backwards being referred to in this way.
not good enough, why 365 days only this day highlights indigenous tradition and stress people to unite as this date is controversial- an invasion day
We are one mob just some don’t think we are !
Mob: disorderly and/or violent crowd, criminal organisation. Thanks but nah, I would much prefer a nation working towards surviving the 21st century.
Australia Day is Civilization Day! it is the day we lifted the poor starving locals into the modern world, we gave them medicine, real food, housing, clothing, money, education, a language that wasn't just incoherent, we even gave them a flag, and made up a history for them.
We need a Republic Day - First Monday in February. Celebrate a united, independent country rather than a particular date 👍
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