16/01/2024
A good Yarn about Jan 26 🙌🏽
✋Ahhhh mate, it’s the day Captain Cook discovered Australia
🤚🏽Nahhh, it’s not Actually, that was in April in 1770
âś‹Oh well, it was when Australia was first discovered by white people then
🤚🏽well no, that was in 1606, and you know there were people here for thousands of years before?
✋Yeah, but it’s when we became a nation, we became Australia
🤚🏽Sorry, no that was 1st of January 1901, and there were many First Nations here long before
✋Well mate, it’s a bloody tradition alright, let me have my beers, beach, and barbie
🤚🏽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
âś‹What does it represent then?
🤚🏽Well, it’s when convicts came over and the British Flag was raised in Warrane (Sydney Cove). It’s a National Day of Mourning for the First Nations people of this land. A day that marks the beginning of massacres, genocide, dispossession, Frontier Wars....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.....?
Ps, I didn’t write this, just copy and paste it
