Australia Day 2021
I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land, culture and community. I pay my respect to Elders past, present and emerging. Australia Day is a conflicted experience in our country - for many, it is the reminder of what has been stolen. You may as well say "Happy Invasion Day". Have you completed the ABC Australia Day quiz yet? I did not get a very good result at all, no sirree. I think I only got about 3 answers right. I knew that the first protest about Australia Day was back in 1938; something I learned only recently. I knew when the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was set up in Canberra; having grown up in Canberra and being old enough to remember made it easy. And I knew that India celebrated a public holiday on the same day. But I only learned that this morning on social media because of a comment someone made on someone else's blog post. So what kind of bl...