#changethedate

[wayfarer-perception]

Invasion Day March in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

2026

[sweet-discordia]

Always was, Always will be

[radicalgraff]

"No Pride in Genocide! Abolish Australia Day" Seen in Reservoir, Melbourne

[notahorseindisguise]

on today, "Australia Day", id like to take a minute and say to all my Australian followers (which I'm pretty sure is only like 2 people), if you celebrate "Australia Day", while being aware of its historical origins, im sorry, i can sugarcoat this: you are an asshole. i understand if you are roped along into family celebrations, but if you yourself go out of your way to celebrate today, you are a horrible person. im sorry. try to fix that, man.

this is not because i hate australia. i love australia. we have a wonderful country. im hella proud to be an australian. or rather, im proud to be an australian every other day. as im sure you know, the issue isnt with the celebration. its with the date of the celebration.

for the majority of my followers in other countries, allow me to elaborate:

australia day, correctly called "Invasion Day" by Aboriginal Australian, is the 26th of January. its the day that captain james cook sailed to australia and """""discovered"""" australia, calling it "Terra Nullius", literally meaning "land belonging to nobody". this, obviously, was false. this was ignoring over 50 000 years of Aboriginal Australians living on this country. 50 thousand years of culture, of life, of stories, of languages, all thrown out with just two words, two words which then allowed europeans to come over and colonise this country. thus began hundreds of years of racism that i dont even have time to get into. (research the stolen generation if you want to know more of australias disgusting past).

in essence, australia day is celebrated like the 4th of july, a celebration of our country, but its on a day with similar historical links to columbus day, in that it represents colonisation, and the destruction of a culture. (i dont know too much about columbus day, but im pretty sure thats an accurate comparison, if not lmk)

Invasion day represents this (Indigenous Australia, with its different groups, each with distinct dialects and cultures):

turning into this.

the destruction of a culture. and we celebrate it.

im sure i could put way more information in here, but i tried my best to fit centuries of racism into a readable post. if you are australian, please reblog this. we need to change the date. hell, if you arent australian, reblog this. go ahead. this needs to be shared to people who dont understand what today represents. spoiler alert, its imperialism.

[wvterways]

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

January 26 marks the British naval invasion of the east coast of the continent now known as Australia in 1788. It is an annual day marked by settler-nationalist celebrations and anti-colonial resistance.

[ben-wisehart]

indigenous Australians: hey can we maybe not celebrate our national holiday on the anniversary of our country being invaded

white ppl, every goddamn year:

[lottiestudying]

26.1.2021 // my last time studying in this dorm room before moving next week

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i would also like to send my solidarity and support to Australia’s First Nations people’s on this Day of Mourning. a day that commemorates the start of a genocide is no day to celebrate. may we listen to their stories and be an ally in their mission to #changethedate. this is indigenous land, always was, always will be.