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I don't know who hears to this but there's no such thing as "respectful" Australia Day celebrations. Don't piss down our backs and tell us it's raining 🙄
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If you’re thinking of celebrating invasion day tomorrow maybe just fucking don’t :p
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January 26 is a Day of Mourning. Understand what we’re grieving. Join us on our healing journey. A Treaty will give everyone in this nation something to celebrate. 🔁 @NITV
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Australia Day. Don't change the date. Remove it from the calendar altogether. We don't deserve to call ourselves a nation when we have one of the last colonial governments in the world to make treaties with our first nations peoples. But let's stop the genocide first.
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As long as Australia Day is celebrated on January 26 we will not be a truthful, fair, free or just nation, no matter how many lies we tell ourselves. It's as simple as that.
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“My teachers says the Australian spirit was born in a foreign war... but Nan says our spirit was always here and we’re still fighting for this land”. @IndigenousX staunch truth telling for all in the colony. Abolish Australia Day. If our children are learning, so can you.
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Australia Day has become the annual starters gun for all the rabid racists to complain about how we objectors hate Australia & disrespect diggers, when in reality it because we love the ancient origins of this country & we respect the First Nations owners. #Auspol #ChangetheDate
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It’s not Australia Day, it’s the day Australia was invaded, it’s the day that Indigenous Australian lives were disrupted, destroyed and defiled in horrific ways. So if you’re Australian, and your considering celebrating on the 26th, don’t.
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Let's hope this country soon reaches the maturity, sensitivity & cultural awareness to realise celebrating on Invasion Day is completely inappropriate & offensive. Hopefully Australia Day will be scrapped & the 26/1 no longer a holiday out of respect to our First Nations people.
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It costs us absolutely nothing to respect and honour the request of those who’s land we live on, and it doesn’t hurt us to not celebrate on that day. It only hurts those who have suffered enough.
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If you buy a heritage listed house over 100 yrs you are not allowed to demolish it but you can destroy sacred sites that are thousands of years old #Dichotomy #AustraliaDay #InvasionDay
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@PaladinAmber honestly, why we haven’t grown as a nation to not only understand why this day is utterly disrespectful to Australia’s first nation peoples, AND not recognise them in our constitution never fails to baffle me. also May 8th is just such a good date to change it too. like c’mon.
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to the non-Australians: Australia Day approaches. Most people like having a public holiday. But the current date (Jan 26) is literally the day white people landed on the continent and it all went to hell after that. It's horrific, & our First Nations people call it Invasion Day.
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@PaladinAmber I don't understand how we have NAIDOC week but still won't change the date for "Australia Day". it just seems like a slap in the face for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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Because we have never changed the Australia Day date. *Except for the several times we have.
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I’m in a FB group for mums who like Christmas (don’t laugh). One has just asked if anyone has done an Australia Day Christmas tree. Another responded with “I’m putting mine in chains, shooting it and giving it smallpox #changethedate” and it’s the best response ever #invasionday
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Look I’m not an expert but it doesn’t feel like you can be an individual, organisation or company that does Acknowledgement of Country throughout the year AND celebrates January 26.
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I’m glad my friends decided we should do a get together but not on the date of Australia Day. For non-Australians wondering, 26 January 1788 was when the first fleet landed in Sydney and invaded the land of the Indigenous people and it’s a shameful part of our colonial history.
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australia day doesn't need to have it's date changed, it needs to be abolished. any form of celebration of a country built on colonialism and genocide is evil.
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cw// genocide , slavery please remember to listen to Australian Aboriginal voices specially when they are talking abt the 26th of January ‘Australia day’ because it actually marks the day that australia was invaded by Europeans and aboriginal peoples were murdered and enslaved.