24/01/2024
Let's talk January 26 👣
✋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
✋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
✋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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