This Thursday, the Australian National Day was again marked by the holding of important indigenous demonstrations denouncing its origin. When some speak of “Australia Day”, others indeed evoke the “Invasion Day”. Anything but a holiday…
By Leo Roussel
Dn the streets of Sydney, the Australian flags were discreet last Thursday. Difficult even in some neighborhoods, on January 26, to imagine that the Australian national holiday, “Australia Day”, was being held. As every year, however, events celebrated, in the country’s largest city, the anniversary of the arrival of the fleet of British ships that came to establish the first penal colony in Sydney, in 1788. But in recent years, attendance of these celebrations seems to be on the decline. And observance of the public holiday, observed in all Australian states only since 1994, is no longer systematic.
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