Mr. Albanese said he wanted Indigenous people recognized as Australia’s original inhabitants in the constitution, which has existed since 1901, before next year’s Australia Day.

Australia Day is known to many Indigenous people as Invasion Day and Survival Day, because of the disastrous impacts on First Nations people of British colonists taking their land without a treaty.

The white founders of modern-day Australia believed that Indigenous peoples were a dying race and, after Australia gained independence from Britain in 1901, sought to expedite our extinction.

Albanese said he wanted Indigenous people recognized as Australia’s original inhabitants in the constitution, which has existed since 1901, before next year’s Australia Day. “If not now ...

In Australia, the date of Jan. 26 goes by many names. "Australia Day" is what you might hear in media and on TV. But for many people, Indigenous or otherwise, it also goes by "Invasion Day" or ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people represented 3.8% of Australia’s population of 26 million, according to a Bureau of Statistics census in 2021. Indigenous people are the nation’s ...

For Australia’s indigenous people, Australia Day represents colonisation and dispossession of their land since 1788. Published On 31 Jan 2020 31 Jan 2020 ‘We are one and free’: Australia ...

That date is commemorated as the official Australia Day holiday, but some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people refer to it as “Invasion Day.” Humans arrived in Australia at least ...

Indigenous people were in Australia for at least 65,000 years before British colonization in 1788, comprising more than 250 nations with distinct languages and cultures.

SINGAPORE: Australia’s national day is dividing many people across the country, instead of bringing them together. The date - Jan 26 - commemorates the landing of Britain's first fleet in 1788 ...

Crowds rallied in Sydney, Melbourne and other cities on Australia Day, decrying the high incarceration rates, poor health and historic persecution of Aboriginal people, whose ancestry stretches ...