Australia Day does not celebrate Captain Cook or the arrival of the First Fleet arrival. There was no invasion!
2. The so called landing of Captain Cook in Sydney Cove happened on the 28th April 1770 – not on 26th January. Captain Cook simply mapped the East Coast of Australia and collected plant samples, documenting the natural fauna and wildlife.
3. The first fleet arrived in Botany Bay on 18th January, 1788 and consisted of approximately 780 prisoners that didn’t want to be here and 550 crew and guards, hardly an invasion fleet.
The 26th was chosen as Australia Day for a very different and important reason. Australians received their independence from being subject to British Rule and having our own Australian passport and identity.
However, Captain Cook’s landing was included in Australia Day bi-centenary celebrations of 1988 when Sydney-siders decided Captain Cook’s landing should become the focus of the Australia Day commemoration.
Modern Australia doesn’t agree or condone what was done under British governance to the Aborigines and the early settlers, including the Irish and many other cultures around the world. However, it is part of our history, and values were different then. Even with the hard rule of the British, they brought Law and Order, the foundations of a successful country, including medicines and science. However, after the horrors of WW2, we decided to try and fix it. We became our own people, with our own identity. On 26th January 1949, the Australian nationality came into existence when the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 was enacted. That was the day we were first called Australians and allowed to travel with Australian passports as Australian citizens, NOT British subjects.
Before that special date, all people living in Australia, including Aborigines, were called ‘British Subjects’ and forced to travel on British passports and fight in British wars.
This is why the 26th of January is the day new Australians receive their citizenship. It is a day which celebrates the implementation of the Nationality of Citizenship Act of 1948 – The Act which gave freedom and protection to the first Australians and gives all Australians, old and new, the right to live under the protection of the “Australian Law”, united as one people and one nation.
HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY
Quite remarkable that Australia’s Indigenous people not only had the foresight to name every capital city, but also possessed advanced knowledge of infrastructure, planning, and zoning.
And why was the date of 26 January 1948 chosen I wonder? No, just an coincidence. And of course there were no slaughters and no records of things that like which might be part of an invasion, so I mean, claim free land.
The 26th is not a date associated with the landing of the first fleet so it is a lie to say it is in Ari on day as the landing took place earlier.
Another example of the hijacker’s narrative.
Right, so we have just chosen some random day on the calendar for this to occur. What a nice little coincidence that is. Nothing to see here folks… Another example of the gaslighting that occurs every year.
What do you mean by random?
The date chosen does not connect with the arrival of the first fleet.
Thank you for sharing this.
Why should “white fella” Australians be be made to feel guilty for something that happened 25 years ago out their control as some of us wasn’t even born yet?
Some of those devious wealthy Indigenous activists on the public purse it milking this for all it’s worth!
Yes it wasn’t good what happened in the past but this victimhood is beyond the joke as some are have moved on with their life but these some of people are sowing division and hatred toward the “white fella”
All know about AUS flag and AUS day was the indigenous fought together with the Anzacs war veterans for the freedoms and country we enjoy now…..
Happy Australia day
oops typo *250 years ago….*
Sounds better.