24/01/2024
Let's talk January 26 đź‘Ł
✋Ahhhh mate, it’s the day Captain Cook discovered Australia
🤚🏽 It’s not actually, Cook did not 'discover' Australia, additionally he came in 1770 to take possession of Aboriginal land
âś‹Oh well, it was when Australia was first discovered by white people then!
🤚🏽Well no, in 1606 a dutch explorer was the first white person landing in Australia, and you do realise there were Aboriginal people already here for thousands of years before?
✋Yeah, but it’s when we became a nation, we became Australia
🤚🏽Sorry, no that was federation on 1st of January 1901, and again, First Nations people were here long before
✋Well mate, it’s a bloody tradition alright, let me have my beers, beach, and barbi
🤚🏽Well it’s actually only been a national holiday since 1994, so it can’t really be a tradition. But we have traditions here that date back over 60,000 years
âś‹What does it represent then?
🤚🏽Well, it’s when around 800 convicts and 550 crew came across and the british flag was raised at Warrane (Sydney Cove) in 1788, declaring british possession, that date was January 26. It’s a National day of mourning for First Nations people of this Country.
It's a day that marks the beginning of massacres, genocide, dispossession of land and culture, frontier wars, separation of families and much more....You’d think a nation with such rich cultural history could recognise and respect their First Nations people, and at the very least, change the date yeah?
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