Tag: Australia Day
LGBTI Australians stand with Indigenous people at rally on Australia Day
It may technically be Australia Day today, but more people turned up to support Indigenous people atrallys across the country
January 26 is officially Australia Day, the national holiday where everyone gets a day off to celebrate being Australian.
The date was chosen because it was the date that British explorers landed in Botany Bay and began the colonization of the continent.
But for Indigenous people in Australia it is not a day of celebration, but rather the day that marks the...