Why is Australia Day on January 26

January 26 sparks fierce debate each year but how did Australia Day end up on January 26 date? Here’s a quick look at the day’s patchy past, different dates we have celebrated and why it was selected and opposed in 1938. #shorts #australia #australiaday #aboriginal

[Victoryismine]

Newsflash they didn’t even come on 26 January. They arrived on 18 January. The reason why we celebrate Australia Day on the 26th however, was the day the British settled in and raised the Union Jack on the 26 and declared that this will be a new chapter for the settlers and convicts

[godzilie]

Its australia day and will always be aus day not invasion day or digie day.

[LukeXMV]

How can someone celebrate occupying others???

[louiserose]

Thank you for this information! The Aboriginal people need to be heard and understood with their point of view it was their country first!! Don't forget all history, not just white history, which has always been one-sided!

[Some_random]

Real sad the abbos couldn’t build anything or farm anything of develop any sort of civilization so boo hoo deal with it

[DJDJDJ]

As an indigenous-Australian, it’s insulting to have my country represented by a flag that hasn’t got any symbolism pertaining to my people, to be expected to celebrate my country’s national date on a day that marks the arrival of a race of people that started a colonisation of murder and dispossession of our ancestors and our people’s culture,

it’s insulting to be expected by racist non-indigenous people to disregard everything our people have been thru at the hands of their ancestors, the lives lost and the children stolen and forced to assimilate, the attempts to breed the blackout of us,

It’s insulting to be expected to celebrate on the start date of all of this, we’re not saying don’t celebrate Australia,
we love this country aswell !!


But it’s wrong for our people to have not been consulted and blatantly ignored about an appropriate date for national celebrations.

You want us to move on, how ?
When you hold celebrations on the start of our people’s historic pain every year,
like doing that isn’t an annual reminder of that pain on what is supposed to be the date we are all celebrating our great country …

You say get over it, like it isn’t the most insulting and exclusive thing non-indigenous people could do.

Then the media, you vilify our people, in our own homeland, and say we don’t love this country (which is completely not true)
and in all actual fact,

Aboriginal-Australians have fought for and died in wars for this country, Aboriginal-Australians work hard, build communities and pay taxes every single day in this country, and we love this bloody country more than anyone !
Aboriginal-Australians want to celebrate too,

But we can’t celebrate on January 26th without losing our self-respect or dignity.
This is why we say,
Change the date,
So we can all celebrate ! ⚫️🟡🔴🇦🇺

Call January 26th colonisation day or something, but it can’t be Australia Day,
A date when all Aussies are supposed to celebrate.
January 26th,
It’s not a date all Aussies can celebrate, and
it’s not ok because we can’t celebrate our country on that date, The start date of 200+ years of our people being disposed and marginalised and murdered.