Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers should be aware that the following article contains images of deceased persons.
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Ever wonder why #FirstNations Aussies refuse to celebrate #AustraliaDay? - look at the images below, and wonder no more! The arrival of the #FirstFleet brought us nothing but heartache, misery and #genocide. Who celebrates their own destruction? Happy #InvasionDay2020
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I get more nervous at the beginning of each year. Then a week out, I swell up with pride knowing & remembering that I’ll be marching for our fallen ancestors and a better future for my people, with 1000’s of my brothers and sisters and our ally’s ✊🏾 #InvasionDay2020 #HowDoYouFeel
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wasn’t hard to continually change the date so why is it “hard” to change the date now? https://t.co/6JBfI7i3gO #changethedate #AbolishAustraliaDay
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I’m a proud Aussie bogan. I drink beer, I wear thongs & singlets and I drive a Holden ute. I love my country but I cannot celebrate the day my aboriginal friends ancestor’s were slaughtered or forced into slavery. I’ll be doing this. #ChangeTheDate #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe https://t.co/7599Jh7yJv
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If you haven’t lived the pain, if your forefathers haven’t, if your mothers haven’t, then you don’t get to minimise it for others. #changethedate
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This is a sign you don’t see in Bondi everyday, walked into Westfield saw this sign and w/in 5 mins a white woman was nice* & complimented me and another sister was working & yarned with me about how she feels about Invasion Day! ❤️🖤💛💙💚 #SHOWUP #ABOLISHAUSTRALIADAY
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@theage This is our great conundrum. I am a First Fleet descendent and feel nothing but SHAME for this day. Our nation is modern, pluralist and should be a beacon for racial harmony and diversity. Our FIRST PEOPLES should be put first. It was and is their land first. #InvasionDay2020
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Spot the 71%. #AbolishAustraliaDay https://t.co/NJgqmX0cM2
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There is nothing you can do to ‘help First Nations feel included‘ on a day which is literally the anniversary of, and celebration of, the invasion which led to...these last 250 years. Seriously, what a shit show. A new date can’t be on the table until the last treaty is signed
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turn up, listen, stand in solidarity. this sunday is invasion day - those of us who are settlers, whatever our background, whatever brought us onto Aboriginal land, we need to show up. see you on the streets #invasionday2020 #abolishaustraliaday #paytherent https://t.co/LpvDQjuo2o
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Australia is burning/flooding/getting smashed by storms/being badly mismanaged. Among all of this chaos, Australia day has snuck up on us. Let's not forget that we need to #ChangetheDate
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If your position is “I don’t care, let’s keep it the same.” Then you DO care, enough to ignore/disagree with the many voices who are calling for #ChangeTheDate Don’t kid yourself that you’re just a cool relaxed guy, going with the flow. You’re enforcing the violent status quo.
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@BlakandBlack No celebration from me, a day of reflection on the atrocities committed from 1788 until 2020 and the bravery of warriors & survivors who fought against insurmountable odds to defend their culture, family and country knowing it may be the last thing they do. Hero’s all of them.
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I hate this time of year. The national discourse is a pissing contest between those who don't want to commemorate genocide and those who simply don't give a fuck. #ChangeTheDate
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Australia Day was originally the 30th of July. Then it was the 28th of July. It has only been a national public holiday on the 26th of January since 1994. Be truthful, you don't care about Arthur Phillip and his boats, you care about the Public Holiday. #changethedate
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The colony gets ready to lie to itself yet again about invasion, massacre and genocide as it celebrates the Myth of “unoccupied” lands of Aboriginal Nations. #changethedate #colonialamnesia
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So that’s all it took? Not the years of petitions to #changethedate? https://t.co/RpKcWdnRtC