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An incredible day yesterday at Bunjil’s Marroun Healing Ceremony. After engaging in a smoking ceremony, we heard some amazing yarns from Nicky Winmar, Uncle Charles Pakana, and Uncle Bill Nicholson, followed by music from David Arden and band. Uncle Charles even shared an intimate moment with Samhain (my dog) and I feel strongly that they connected on a spiritual level over shared trauma.
Special thanks to Moonee Valley City Council for hosting this incredible event and to Councillors Jones, Iser, Adams, and Cosgriff for taking time to meet/catch-up with me and working with me to strengthen partnerships between Brimbank and Moonee Valley. Shout out to Jo Briskey who also came and introduced herself to me and was keen to hear about my local advocacy in Brimbank.
Fantastic read.
“We all know what this day represents, and why so many cling to the celebration of it. I ask you to ignore the noise coming from the people who are determined to maintain their right to participate in racist celebrations. “
https://indigenousx.com.au/invasion-day-debates/
#AustraliaDay
#InvasionDay
#SurvivalDay
#Colonialism
#Imperialism
#Captialism
#RadicalChange
#Bales2025FilmChallenge of January 26: convicts: a convict settlement in Sydney Cove on January 26, 1788 marks what is considered the founding of Australia.
Οι παράνομοι [Oi paranomoi / The Outlaws] (Nikos Koundouros, 1958)
https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ct5n
Why don't we just change the feckin' date?
This doesn’t surprise me seeing how conservative Tasmania generally is.
Personally I like a late summer public holiday just before the kids go back to school. But, "Australia Day" is not a reason to celebrate.
Let us remember today as Invasion Day. It is not just when we remember the invasion, colonisation and dispossession of the peoples of this land we belong to. It is a commemoration of resilience, of resistance and of survival.
Unconditional solidarity and allyship. Always.
So is Susssssssan Ley saying there’s intelligent life on Mars, or is she doubling down on terra nullus of Australia 200 years ago #AusPol #AustraliaDay #InvasionDay #SurvivalDay #ChangeTheDate
Marching with 30,000+ on unceded Gadigal land in solidarity with all colonised people everywhere.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land #invasionday
Has anyone observed the overlap between those enthusiastically supporting the start of the colonial period in Australia, and those who enthusiastically support Israeli conduct in the OPT?
I have not yet met any exceptions to this. The pro-genocide and ethnic cleansing people stick together, as do (usually) those opposed. Even across time and contexts.
Suspect there is a similar correlation with 'No' voters in the Voice referendum.
March 3rd 1986 was the date that the Australia Act took effect.
Prior to that, the Australian constitution was an Act of British Parliament we couldn’t change without the assent of the English House of Commons, and Australian High Court cases could be appealed to the British Privy Council.
So we weren’t in charge of our own constitution or our own court system. We weren’t independent from Britain in any meaningful way.
That changed with the passage of the Australia Act. Thirty nine years ago. That’s how old we are as an independent country.
March 3rd should be a public holiday marking our national Independence Day.
We choose to celebrate our formation as an English jail instead, and the main reason we do it is belligerent unselfconscious completely normalized racism against Indigenous Australians, baked into the very fabric of our colonist culture.
January 26th, aka Bogan Mardi-Gras. Welcome I guess. Glad to see all the good people of Vic, Qld, Tas, SA and WA having a festival day to celebrate NSW’s special day.
Sorry, First Nations people of Australia. First one since the bigotry vote last year must be a bit more bitter than usual. Continuous sovereignty, never ceded. Treaty now.
Happy Republic Day, India. Australia’s marking the day NSW became an English jail, you’re having a holiday for fucking off the British and forming your own government.
(Our Independence Day anniversary is March 3rd, but nobody pays any attention to that at all, or even knows what it is)
Invasion Day 2025: a guide to protest marches and events across Australia on 26 January
From dawn ceremonies to rallies, festivals and other gatherings, here is what’s happening in each state and territory
#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AustraliaDay #InvasionDay #NoPrideInGenocide
Invasion Day 2025 - nothing to celebrate. #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #InvasionDay #auspol #StopAUKUS
I see that someone dumped red paint and took a hammer to the Cook statue in Randwick (Sydney). And now people are running around tut-tutting and trying to figure out what to do.
Possible solutions:
1. Move it to a museum in its current state and put some signage up explaining the history of Cook and his interactions with the people who were already living in and around the Pacific when he finally turned up; the history of statue itself; and explain why this vandalism keeps happening.
Or
2. Leave it where it is, and every year someone gets to take some whacks at it with a sledgehammer, and dump some more red paint on it, until it's a little stump of crushed sandstone and paint.
If you're interested in the back story on this particular statue check out Trove. This isn't the first time someone has proposed moving this thing. @trovenewsbot