January 26 commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet. Specifically, it was the day commander Captain Arthur Phillip, rowed ashore at Sydney Cove, raised the Union Jack and proclaimed British ...
January 26 is officially Australia Day, the country's national day. But for Indigenous people, and an increasing number of Australians, this is not a day to celebrate.
"We are sick and tired of feeling unsafe in our own homelands. Every year we dread the 26 January and the racism and ignorance that comes with it." That's Ngurra Murray, a Wamba Wamba, Yorta Yorta ...