"This year is the 40th Anniversary of the Tent Embassy. Another “Australia Day” passes without acknowledgement of invasion, colonialism, genocide, massacres or frontier wars. A government that upholds systems of apartheid in jails and income quarantining and the Northern Territory Intervention; and deaths in custody; and forcing people to move off their homelands; and education and health inequalities, and dying languages and schools where children learn only english; and mining companies stealing and raping land and telling traditional owners they should work on their stolen land to end a so called “welfare mentality”. Happy fucking Australia Day. We still don’t have a treaty and Indigenous peoples never ceded sovereignty. We are not a post-colonial country."
"Another Australia Day has arrived
Celebrations across our land
Guess they don’t think what we’ve been through
Our ancestors tried to hold our land
Keep us together to protect our clans
Barbecues burning and sweet tasting wine
The white man’s celebrating what belongs to us
But we’re here in the background
Being proud of who we are
Our red, black and yellow unites us all
Saying we have survived another century
Of white man’s invasion"
Dear Native Australians,
I am sorry that on the 26th January white people all jizz their pants over the anniversary of the time we stole your land, began to steal your children, engaged in genocide, and attempted to annihilate your culture completely. I am sorry that so many people think that this is a time to be proud of being non-indingenous-Australian given the real history of the day. I am sorry that rather than at celebrate indigenous culture on this day, people choose to celebrate white-Australian culture, just like they do almost every other day. I am sorry that my people ignore the mistakes of our ancestors who tore apart Native Australian families and act like we have done nothing wrong by dancing while wearing the modern Australian flag and cowboy hats. I am sorry.
