I am an Australian, but i am pretty disgusted with Australia Day, how can people celebrate the massacring of Aboribigines and the taking of their land based on the principle of terra nullius. Because that is what it is about. It is celebrating the day, when Captain Cook landed on Australia dooming the Aborigines, even to this day, Aborigines do not have equal rights along with the rest of the "normal Australians". Even despite the massacring, unfair treatment and prejudice, there was still the arrival of disease, within weeks of European arrival, many Aborigines died from the diseases that the Europeans had brough over from Europe including chickenpox, smallpox, influenza and measles. Nothing was done for the Aborigines since 40 years ago (2007-1967), 1967 as in the 1967 referendum, the changing of section 51 and 127 of the Australian Constitution
2007-01-24
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