Thousands protest ‘invasion’ on divisive Australia holiday
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2023
- Thousands of people have rallied across Australia calling for its national day celebrations to change.
The Indigenous community and its supporters say the arrival of the first British fleet on this day in the 18th century marked a day of genocide, and a public holiday glorifies the invasion.
The debate about Australia Day is part of a larger one about increasing recognition for Indigenous Australians and giving the community a greater say in national decision-making.
Al Jazeera's Sarah Clarke reports from Brisbane, Australia.
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Everyone should be celebrating the day that the indigenous people of Australia finally left the stone age.
ridiculous. There much important things that effect indigenous people like education, family violence, incarceration, abuse of women.
For you its ridiculous because nothing stole your land as do Uk.
@@renatomatos90 How about your Portugese family?
like white settlers don't suffer from all these things.
@@renatomatos90 Might want to have a word with the Scottish Irish and Welsh there fella.
I didn’t invade here. I was born here. I am Australian born
your criminal grandparents invaded and you are still reaping the benefits...
@@seanou2837 you dont know my grandparents as I don't know yours >:{
@@seanou2837 you’re as stupid as the next do gooder
@@seanou2837 My grandparents were immigrants, I was born here, I'm an Australia.
@@Harry_24-d2u Exactly, they never think it through, too caught up in their victim mentality to identify that bad things happened to all the races including the white people dragged to Australia against their wills, convict is just another name for slave.
And Millions celebrated Australia Day…without guilt.
Some people are never happy unless they're victims.
Australia put there people in concentration camps and molested their children till the 80s. What are you on about?
The victims keep themselves as victims as long as centrelink exists.
@@rionijam727 that makes no sense. You deliver stale talking points that don’t address the holocaust Australia has committed and the atrocities it’s committing today.
@@Salahudiyn777 your comment makes no sense, feed a winger and he will always come back winging.
Atrocities from many years ago and Australia day is not linked in any way,
It's called have a party if you live in Australia no matter what color skin you have, even if your skin is purple smile and have a great day.🙂
@@rionijam727 have a party in what way? as someone who isn't white all i need to do is drive 30 minutes out of the brisbane cbd or even 10 minutes away in a 'white washed' suburb and I get the agressive unfriendly looks from white people.
Living in a predominate indigenous community, I would love to see more interest put into the safety of vulnerable indigenous children.
But god forbid we celebrate one day
go woke go broke
Take your cameras to Alice Springs, Al Jazeera.
Of course they won't, Al Jazeera was infiltrated and co-opted a decade ago, they're just another propaganda platform now.
haha fukn spot on m8
Australia is of the Aboriginal people, not Australians. Genocide was committed, how can you celebrate a day like this, an insult to the Aboriginal people.
Well HELLO !!!! Australia wouldn't be the 12th biggest economy in the world without whites, would it? Look at the bigger picture, simpleton.
If you had a better weapon than a stick you would of had a better chance.
@patriot99 If your Australian you should know the original name of Australia and were it came from!
Terra Australis Incognita.
Like everything British, it's original roots came from somewhere else!
Even the St.Georges Cross is not English, Santo Giorgio, from Genoa, Italy. Read and learn Mr Patriot!
@@chrimbus71 LOL,a common answer🤣
But your language is thanks to Rome, as 99% is the LATIN Alphabet!
Not African! Maybe you did not know that, would not surprise me😆
The Aboriginals should be thankfull
All those non indigenous busybodies complaining that their ancestors stole this land are being hypocritical unless they remove themselves from the stolen land.
They are beautiful souls -
They deserve to be here & they're not complaining about their ancestors!
It's beautiful to know what their story and family history is -
It's called empathy!
Hooray for Australia day it's for everyone ,black white or brindle
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Your comment is a joke
Wow the level of insensitivity and consideration for the indigenous peoples is subhuman.
@@edahithnain4829 perhaps you didnt read it, your choice to be provocative good evening
"It's for blacks" so in other words you want the indigenous Australians to celebrate their own oppression.
When will they celebrate invasion day in Istanbul former Constantinople ?
Based
The thracians ofc
Din bobilo Constantinople was invaded and plundered by the roman empire
@@hammad8255 I mean islamic invasion and occupation till this day
Spain needs to celebrate Islamic invasions of 700AD
Happy Australia Day 🇦🇺
Last time I looked.....my feet were firmly planted on Australian soil....I care little of the past but fully realise it was corrupt and vicious .No different from today really... I celebrate the fact All Australians of all creeds and persuasions still are here enjoying the last fragments of freedom we thought we had
*Head of State Australia, still King UK🇬🇧*
@@Harry_24-d2u Yeah we should have our own monarchy
Solidarity with true people of Australia.
I’m white and I marched, among 1000’s of others from the wider community, who genuinely care for our First Nations people. It’s a large movement, and it keeps growing.
🖤💛❤️
@@annanudniduck
Thank You! We can all live together in this beautiful country!
Indigenous Australians don't want to take over the country!
The earth is everyone's supermarket, we just want everyone to respect it -
As the saying goes:
If you take care of the land!
The land will take care of you!
@@colleen2671 Indeed 🖤💛♥️. I’ve never felt Indigenous want to take over the land. It must be heartbreaking to see your land destroyed. I do feel there is a massive shift in the nation’s psyche though , a lot of good will /empathy for our First Peoples and their history.
Our white Australian culture needs to be preserved we are not aboriginal we are white Australian
🤡
Just go back to Europe.
Yes
What is white man CULTURE???? Do you even have a culture mate lol 😆 can't wait to see this response 👏
Well bend over your Queen an White God 😂🤣
WTF is happening to Australia !
I wonder if all the clowns who want to ban Australia day celebrate Christmas?
If it wasn’t for the British landing in Australia the aboriginals would still be rubbing two sticks together.
For sure
And if it wasn't the British it would of been a different country colonising aus.if anything the aboriginal people should be gratefull.not whinging.nkw the live in houses instead of mudhuts
And they still alive, not extinct and enslaved like after British come.
cope
Typical White mindset, thinking that what they bring is what people want and need.
Where are all,those Indian migrants ….they should be supporting this protests and line up with Aborigines indigenous community!,shame on them.
They went for support women in qatar. 😂😂🤣
@muhammedriaz
Indian (and other) migrants are 'squatting' on Aboriginal land same as the Whites as far as 'militant' Aboriginals are concerned.
You should fight with Hamas so we can throw pig party for you
I protest and have supported their cause for years. There were all nationalities there but I must admit it’s mainly Anglo Aussies, a few African descent. Indians and Asians under represented ( given their large numbers here)
@@annanudniduck Be careful who you count as "Anglo Aussies," many who appear to be Anglo, actually identify as being Aboriginal. They ignore the fact they (mixed Race) would not exist without White settlement!🤣 BTW, you won't see any of them helping the real Indigenous in Outback Australia re health and education!
Australia day should be changed to the 20th of January. Which is that actual day the first fleet arrived.
Shouldn't have australia day
@@nartnee8596 So I guess January 1, the Commonwealth of Australia's creation day, should be the most important national holiday instead of the day of the arrival of the first fleet.
Genocide? Nonsense. Long live Australia!
INVASION Day, are they talking about when Africans colonized most of the world then Australia 60,000 yrs ago or when the Brits did the same thing 250 yrs ago ?
Aboriginals have the same genes as the first human to step foot in Australia due to being isolated here when the land bridge melted. Doesn't that make them colonizers or immigrants ? They definitely aren't native & did not evolve here.
They are still indigenous, because their ancestors were the first humans to settle Australia. If we follow the logic you propose, the only indigenous people in the world are Africans because all other races are not native to the continents where they live.
@@elo6550
My point exactly.
Humans are indigenous to Earth. Migration is a natural process for all life. On Earth Colonization is just a 4 billion yo natural evolutionary process, nothing abnormal at all. It's normal for animals to defend their claimed territory as does a lion but the land does not belong to them nor is it illegal to fight & kill them to take it, it's a natural process all living things follow. War is natural, the strong survive Evolution 101.
People need to remember, we are animals guided by our instincts, not supreme beings above the laws of nature.
Add a new Statutory Holiday to celebrate Australian Identity, while making Jan 26 a stat holiday but for mourning and reflection. Everyone loves an extra national holiday 😀
Yeah and you can finally get a tan.
Please advise , WHAT ARE AUSTRALIANS TO MOURN ?????? Please do tell ?????Andrej Kondisenko Cairns Australia .
Make a new day for Aboriginals in prison to rat those Elders that put them there out and sack them. Some can't get away from money.
@@andreikondisenko6089
For colonising invading and killing of the Aborigines. Don't act dumb
@@angelstarz3367 “'He knew a lot about Aboriginal people,' Kieza says. 'He knew a lot about Aboriginal trackers and how it was said they could find a butterfly if it had flown past somewhere a week earlier.'
What Kelly did not know from first-hand experience but was regularly reported in newspapers was the barbarism of Queensland's Native Mounted Police, a paramilitary force.
The Native Mounted Police, who were meant to provide protection to settlers, would subdue, chase and regularly kill other Aboriginal men and women on raids which were euphemistically called 'dispersals'. ‘They'd go out and either drive indigenous people away or kill them,' Kieza says. 'They'd come back with notches on the butts of their rifles.'
It has been estimated members of the Native Mounted Police were involved in the killing of up to 40,000 indigenous people in the later decades of the 19th century. “
One clip i saw of this protest, the australian flag was torn in half. I think thats very ordinary.
Happy Australia Day.
Spain Empire >>>>> British Empire.
Straight up they lucky the Spanish didn’t settle first they would straight be no indigenous people left
Why are they still having australia day.Its racist isn't it?
Much like Thanks-Giving. One man celebrates on the day of one man's death.
In Australia the following are celebrated
13 February National Apology Day
21 March
Harmony Day
26 March
National Close the Gap Day
26 May
National Sorry Day
27 May to 3 June
National Reconciliation Week
27 May
1967 Referendum
3 June
Mabo Day
1 July
Coming of the Light
From the first Sunday in July to the second Sunday in July
National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) Week
4 August
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day
9 August
International Day of the World's Indigenous People
I know aboriginals are very sad on this day. But we are not trying to make it a sad day. We are trying to celebrate being australian. Whether you're Aboriginal or right. Its about time we shared the land, peacefully together. We are not like our ancestors. Violent, racist and killing people. We just want unity. My name is Nathan Barrett and i HATE racism and DIVISION
When the idea of the world was made you had islands and islands had connections that had life on and so life had a weirder deranged monkey species who became man and man spread its stupidity across these islands than the islands having had enough said well I'm going home so they spread apart and with time those who called man were evolving made dumber things and come up with the dumbest thing which was let's take instead of make so they took things like a childhood bully but with pointy sticks and sticks that went bang and so these man bully's took those others stuff those who believed in being less harsh to the place but the bully's didn't care because iff can be taken who cares so the bully's generations ahead change from being a bully to being a strange cat liker who looks at books of comedic joy whilst others remember that the land they stand in there belief isn't there's but in the end the land realy owns itself like how a haircut is owned by fleas but the person its on.
Australia is like the UK, but just the working class part 🤣
should declare a republic. Farwell to British empire.
Yes many of us are hoping so. Australia has a Labor government, with The Greens holding balance of power who are very Pro a Republic.
They’re the fastest mover in Australian politics and with mostly young people voting for them they are our future party.
They’re also further left than Labor with Socialist policies. Australia will move further left. They’re also big on Indigenous affairs.
Farewell to Chinese genocide.
The death of Australia
Happy Australian Day...get over it!
Wayne Wharton would probably already be dead in his utopian stone age society.
My paternal grandmother was an Aboriginal of the East-Timor. Her uncle led the people try to overthrow the the regime of Portuguese , when they genocide her people. In my limited knowledge, both Portuguese and the Aboriginal people got on pretty well!
May I be courageous to comment that while the government is trying to mend the situation of the Aboriginal people. The latter group my need to be willing to let go of the past.
Now, being supportive of the Aboriginal people in great, but would it be harmful if we kept digging up their painful past?
So why do Jews remember Holocaust every single year...why don't they let go. Yet they live by the mantra of "never forget"
Support for Native Australians, ABORIGINES, from Serbia! ♥️🇷🇸
Fight for for rights and your freedom against anglo saxon Nazism!
Hahaha🤣😂🤣😂
OK, change the date, what does that mean, what will it achieve, they still lost the country to white people and nothing is gonna change that
Justice for Milosevic killed
@@Harry_24-d2u Justice to all those who suffered under NATO bombardment.
Take care of your problems
I really couldn't care less about the history. If they wanna change the day then whatever. As long as I don't have to go to school that day, I'm happy
When you buy a house no one remembers the old owner Australia has a new owner white Australia
pathetic!
Have they paid reparations to the Aborigines
400 ,000 thousand $$$$$ dollars each , Land Grants , % of Mineral Royalties to 2.5 % of Australian population ,Its called Aboriginal Industry . So what has the Australian Government given you ???????? Why dont you ask your local Politician and news reporters for some written information and put up on RUclips ?????? And good luck with that . Andrej Kondisenko Cairns Australia
No but the Elders get paid every custody death. Silence=money.
I don't know, free university, free medical, free housing, free public transport...you tell me.
$100 000 AUD for Stolen Generation
they did like twice idiot
They were marooned and had to be rescued from the stone age
Someone needs to go to Peter Dutton's home and steal it from him and see how he feels?
Many nations have a national day.
Past is the past and it’s time to heal and move on....
there is no past when oppression and discrimination is still the order of the day.
But you enjoy and benefit from a brutal inhumane imperial colonial savage system that was designed for you!
This Brutal system that represents the STOLENWEALTH where everyone gets to enjoy and benefit from except The sovereign peoples of the country!
Revenge us sweet tho
@@seanou2837 Do you live in Australia? Why don’t you go somewhere else?
We wouldn’t miss you👋
Support for the aborigines and red Indians. Respect for human values and indigenous people of these lands.
Red indians what ???
@@vernongoodey5096 I meant Native Indians of America. History books brain washed us to use these terms.
@@SHAKHSIYAA seems like you’re trying to make excuses for being a racist bigot. You weren’t brainwashed by history books it’s in your beliefs
Same in England.
also aborigine is a racist term - use indigenous australians or aboriginal australians
What a load of garbage...
"Colonisers" I think the correct word is winners ;)
So we looking at what, less then 1% of our population, sounds like they just have to deal with it, free to voice your opinion but it's not the popular one. I am all for making sure every human gets their rights that's fair enough, but looks like the day is staying.
Remember when the English came here there was nothing the aboriginals did zero white Australian and migrants built this country
Change the date to the 1st April 👍
Too close to Good Friday, already a public holiday celebrating Jesus' death. But anytime in February should work as there's no public holiday for that month, and still summer 🙂
No.
White peoples saying there aboriginal
Well if they have been there 300 years...
Mourning of what? Everyone's ancestry has lived through an invasion of some sort, be here or elsewhere, get over it. No Aboriginals have been hurt in this centuries making of Australia day.
Australia represents Aboriginals more than any other race.
" Australia represents Aboriginals more than any other race."
Australia is not a race and Australia represents Aboriginals more than any other ....
Because the aboriginals are from australia dumb dumb.
I guess you have no problem with more asian and african immigrants to australia then , since invasion and migration is the norm?
Yet but the aborigines can’t rebuild and some are poor white men benefit
26 of January is not a day to celebrate, it is a day of tension, a day of struggle, a day of depression, a day of humiliation, a day of invasion.
Which indigenous Australian astrologist taught them that there are 365 days in a year and that a "January 26th" exists?
It's a celebration for most
It is also a day when the vast majority of Australians of all races are proud to be Australian.
No it really isn’t. For the vast majority of aborigines it was a day of saviour
This invasion day stuff is so blah blah blah its getting old guys😴
Put more people are standing with it 😊
@@Mitchconner2001 that’s because the social engineers are working hard at creating this manufactured rage.
The white man. Always 8n the wrong somewhere
You are RACIST
Thankfully women love us.
Thank you everyone in Australia for recognising the First Nation People as the traditional owners of this country.
Their spirits are broken, they have suffered enough and we need to stand together to heal their hearts and give them support.
May the Lord look over them.
First Nations people themselves are immigrants, go look into their DNA, it shows the northern tribes migrated to Australia from India.
There was no nation or nations. What there was were hundreds of different tribes speaking hundreds of different languages, many were nomadic and most were in constant conflict with neighbouring tribes resulting in 60,000 years of massacres.
Thank you. And yes when I saw my mother being bashed for the first time with an iron bar by a Caucasian boy my spirit became broken. When I heard the stories and read letters from my grandmother asking for some of her wages to buy flour of all things or a pair of shoes my spirit became broken. When I received racism throughout my whole schooling my spirit became broken. When I watched all my sibling’s receiving racism my spirit became broken. When I saw my people being bashed and arrested for just being black my spirit became broken. But I’m healing. So thank you for recognising that. However the spirit of the oldest living continuous culture cannot be broken because we’re still here.
@@vk88864 Go into any regional town and watch the spirits of elderly Australians be broken by the crime wave enacted on them by Aboriginal teens.
Give me a break
Yeah the white man 💋
Your cousins have been invading Europe for decades now, you can't talk
@@BeBe-vh4ry yeah to replace white man 💋 you see this plan is coming true
@@ahmedmehmed8423 You will be sent home before it gets to that, abdul. Rounded up like dogs and deported 😉
@@BeBe-vh4ry who will work in Europe immigrants left Europe is full with old people and how old are you and how many kids you have
@@BeBe-vh4ry it's your wishful thinking it's to late to do something now when you just watch and don't do nothing what's the point talking to you
Palestinians get all sympathy while no one ever helped these people hypocrite world
Only terrorists are with Palestine
First Nations Australians have freedom of movement and equal rights. Their children aren’t prosecuted in military courts like Palestinian minors are under Israeli military law, they receive a Children’s court under ‘Civil Law’ with all the same rights as everyone for a fair trial.
They don’t have military with guns swarming around their schools or put through checkpoints.
They have a 100 000 Aussies pulled onto the street each Australia Day chanting to end this colonialist holiday. It’s akin to a 100 000 Israelis marching for the Palestinians (Nakba day ) on Israeli Independence Day.
Your comparison is pathetic. The similarity is the British arriving, just as Israel was granted by the Balfour declaration, and it upset the traditional owners and created genocide of 10 000 + ( 1788) but at least we’re owning up to it ! Israel doesn’t discuss the Nakba it hides it.
And by the way Israel supplied the South African Apartheid police with military bullet proof jeeps and arms during international sanctions which is why South African whites who fought against Apartheid ( my family included) and Black South Africans stand with Palestine,. As well they are removing settled Arab communities from their land ( Sheikh Jarrah, Masafer Yatta) like South Africa did to non whites ( District 6 etc) bringing back painful memories of Apartheid for my fellow black South African friends.
You do realize the same thing that happened to Native people from every country or continent is currently happening to Palestinians, right? And sympathies aren't enough, Palestinians need weapons, money, food, and anything necessary to survive and resist.
Which indigenous Australian astrologist taught them that there are 365 days in a year and that a "January 26th" exists?
Ungrateful lot
This is absolutely true. It should be called Invasion Day. The saddest day in Australian history. Australia should official make this Invasion Day as a Memorial Day. It should also have a new Australia Day to celebrate an Australia for ALL people, including and especially First Nation people.
Fam if it was an invitation their wouldn’t be any natives you soft left idiot
Beautiful ❤️
Lucky it wasn't the spanish who landed.. There would be none of you left..
Yes, they would remain. Of all the Spanish-speaking countries in the continental Americas, the only one that does not have an indigenous population is Uruguay and it is because the Uruguayans themselves killed them after becoming independent.
Invasion day hahaha get over it
They never will because it's truth
@@JUSTFORFUN-cd5dd It's there fault, 1000s of years of existence and the best weapon you have is a stick.
@@David-md7xq
sometimes I wish god's existence. But there is no God that is also truth. 😂😂😂🤣🤣
Anyway learn people of the land learn. There is only nails and hammers in this cruel world.
They're only half breed mongrels
@@David-md7xq still doesn’t justify genocide. If you walk into a room of weak elderly people and you kill every single one of them, is it their fault for being weak? No, it’s your fault for being a sadistic maniac.