The Indigenous people in Australia see January 26 as the start of widescale massacres, land grabs
and oppression
. Indigenous Australians, instead of marking it as Australia Day in homage to British settlers. Aboriginal Australians call it Invasion Day, Survival Day or Day of Mourning.
Less Australians are gravitating towards renaming the country’s well known Australia Day Invasion Day, a recent Roy Morgan poll shows, although more over 2 out of 3
of those surveyed still favor the holiday’s original name!
Australia's Indigenous peoples timeline since 1788
Australia's First Peoples continue to endure a tumultuous relationship with their British colonizers, which dates back to 1788, since Indigenous people still face disproportionate unemployment and poor access to health care to this day
1788, on January 25, British Navy captain Arthur Phillip docks at Sydney with first convicts1788-1930, Estimated 8,140 Indigenous people killed in 304 massacres by colonial forces1868, Influx of convicts ends1924, Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association, first activist group, formed1938, Indigenous men forced to re-enact arrival of first fleet; Aboriginals observe Day of Mourning1962, Indigenous Australians granted right to vote under Commonwealth Electoral Act1967, Australians vote to include Aboriginal, Torres peoples in census1994, on January 26 declared Australia Day to make colonists landing2008, Kevin Rudd issues first official apology to Aboriginal and Torres peoples
How British colonizers invasion affected indigenous Australians
After colonizers arrived on Sydney's shores, Australia's Indigenous tribes faced massacres
, debilitating illness
and had their children torn away
from them in what is today called the stolen generations.
Colonization set back Australia's indigenous people as their population decreased by 90% since 1788 to 1900. 60% of deaths linked to diseases carried in by British colonizers, 10 to 33% of indigenous children estimated separated from families from 1910 to 1970. At least 38000 outstanding aboriginal land claims in just NSW.
sources: TRT World
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