Context for other confused non-Australians like myself:
Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain by Arthur Phillip at Sydney Cove, a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour.
Some observe 26 January as Invasion Day, Survival Day or as a Day of Mourning, as a counter-observance to the national day.
Since at least 1938, the date of Australia Day has also been a day of protest and of mourning the start of the British colonisation of Australia, characterised as an invasion in which Aboriginal Australians had the land that they had occupied for millennia forcibly taken.Just to add context:
Australia Day has only been a national holiday since 1994. The invention of the sim card is older than the history of Australia Day as a national holiday. If there was ever something more spiritually-Israeli than this, I’m not sure what it could be.
My brother in Christ, you are demonstrating in support of a day that is predated by your own existence. These are the people who wring their hands and clutch their pearls over “the erasure of history” in defense of a national holiday that doesn’t even qualify as being middle-aged yet.
I dont think the person you’re replying to is stating an opinion, they just copy pasted the context given in the article somewhere
I’m with you on this, I just wanted to expand on the lore - that date being a day of mourning and of protests against colonization predates the national holiday itself and I was piggybacking on the info they were sharing.
Ahh. I misunderstood
It’s okay, I think my wording could have been better anyway.
