Opinion

Be an ally, not an accomplice on Australia Day

By Shannon Maree Torrens
Updated January 26 2021 - 1:44pm, first published 1:23pm
Protesters marching toward Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday morning. Picture: Sarah Basford Canales
Protesters marching toward Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday morning. Picture: Sarah Basford Canales

In Australia, every year we find ourselves inexplicably marking our national day of celebration on a day that has considerable pain attached to it for Indigenous people. This is not only enormously insensitive, it also normalises historical and present-day wrongs committed against our First Nations people.

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