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Many Aboriginals call Australia Day “Invasion Day”. That’s a simple fact of life, and if the Aboriginal people are less than enthused, they’ve had a lot to be unenthusiastic about for a couple of centuries.
Educated Australians are well aware of that fact, and sympathize. The Stolen Generation was not a myth, the massacres were not fables, and the ongoing misery isn’t exactly hard to spot.
The 26th of January commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney. With it came disease that obliterated most of the local Aboriginals, guns, and a lot of actual misunderstandings.
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- Paul Wallis [Op-Ed: Australia Day, or Invasion Day? Aboriginals want the day changed]
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