26th of January: Australia Day
On the 26th of January we will celebrate the "Australia Day" and I am
really looking forward to it cause we will have a day off and a
spectacular fireworks show is going to be organized on the Swan River.
However I thought it was a kind of "Independence Day", but I was very
astonished when I read this from Wikipedia:
really looking forward to it cause we will have a day off and a
spectacular fireworks show is going to be organized on the Swan River.
However I thought it was a kind of "Independence Day", but I was very
astonished when I read this from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Day
It seems that Australians celebrate the first invasion of this country
on that day!
I am not surprised if "....Some Indigenous Australians see Australia
Day as a celebration of the destruction of Indigenous culture by
British colonialism...." (wikipedia).
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