Thousands take part in Invasion Day rally in Melbourne

Thousands of protestors took part in an Invasion Day rally in Melbourne’s CBD on January 26.
Attendees called for Australia Day to be abolished or the date to be changed and for a treaty with First Nations people.
Speakers at the event directed criticism towards the government, police and media.

[@Rae-nq2yw]

And millions of Australians celebrate Australia Day.🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@Gough-jf9zf]

Exactly, the majority celebrated it positively, so why get upset at a minority voice?

[@Rae-nq2yw]

@ because it’s divisive BS. One Australia, one flag, one people. Anti Australian if you like?

[@positivepawpaw7564]

Heh heh 🇦🇺💪🏻

[@Gough-jf9zf]

"Everything I disagree with is anti-Australian".

[@omgitsabloodyandroid5161]

Aboriginals had 25,000 years and built nothing Europeans had 200 years and built Australia

[@ZELJKO472]

Isn't it 60,000? It was 10 when I was a kid. And they have been to the moon, sailed the world, had best agricultural knowledge, traded with every country, invented vehicles.....

[@davidhastings7714]

@@ZELJKO472 planted crops, domesticated animals, built grain storage silos, and built a nation all while holding hands and singing Kumbaya around the campfire

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@@ZELJKO472 An Aussie blackfella has walked on the moon? Cool.

[@multioptioned]

Sarcasm is beyond you? 😂 ​@@Gough-jf9zf

[@rosshitchen-ij6en]

@@ZELJKO472 Nobody has been on the moon.

[@scottlarue1834]

This shows the lefties are hard at work in Australia. Don't put up with their shit!

[@killbotone6210]

Freedom of Speech.

[@shaunmenezes9478]

bit too thick for a bit of empathy aye Scottie 😂

[@scottlarue1834]

@@shaunmenezes9478 if you let them take hold, the lefties will do their best to destroy Australia. Look at all the underhanded shit they try to pull in America. They're bad.

[@Sol-01]

@@shaunmenezes9478 No empathy for something that happened over 250 years ago

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@@Sol-01 If you don't acknowledge the bad elements of history, how can you embrace the good? It's not reasonable to cling to ANZAC myths while denying or ignoring the very negative stands of history that made us Aussies.

[@rickfromhove3324]

Stop jailing kids ? How about stop committing crimes.

[@ZELJKO472]

U notice Albo hid in office for two hours in Alice. Never went to women's shelters, kids shelters or clinics or hospitals. Full of victims of violence.

[@Peter-p5u8t]

​@@CatsandJPbe grateful for living on the best place on 🌎

[@Thelonebloke1u]

Exactly they should stop filling their brains up with hatred of this country and white people.

[@krislamont5074]

@@rickfromhove3324 Jails teach us how to survive in the harshest conditions because we learn from mistakes that our corrupt system has created. True Rehabilitation comes from the adults that make excuses and yet have gotten away with murder

[@krislamont5074]

@@rickfromhove3324 Every single one of Adults turn a blind eye to when these kids need help. But want to lock them up when they finally act out.

[@douglasbanks3318]

These people should have their Welfare payments stopped ,if they don't like Australia Day.

[@CatsandJP]

Are you on welfare….do you line up at Centrelink with non indigenous people if you do then your no better than anyone else.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

You could have yours cancelled for not liking them.

[@douglasbanks3318]

@@Gough-jf9zf LOL ,im not on Welfare .How could you like a bunch left wing nut jobs , and unwashed Drug addict Vermin ?Unless YOU are one yourself .

[@EL-FUKKO]

Pay 'em in roo tails and yams

[@EL-FUKKO]

​@@Gough-jf9zf It's not compulsory to like everybody, particularly fuckwits like this

[@FredStoneII]

Why do we keep giving these people airtime? Time to move on. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@mickoz9389]

These people have a profound ignorance of human behaviour

[@CatsandJP]

The only ones ignorant are those who lack tolerance and condemn..because everyone has a right to protest regardless of colour..gender…ethnicity….or creed

[@LukeXMV]

Wrote an English criminal or English prison guard 😂

[@mickoz9389]

@@CatsandJP Who's talking about rights? Try formulating your argument so it counters mine...or go away.

[@mickoz9389]

@@LukeXMV You're very deep, aren't you..

[@CatsandJP]

@@mickoz9389You’re comment has just proved ignorance…by saying…..go away….when I have a right to comment….besides I pay premium KZbin and I’ve got to get my money’s worth.

[@mickoz9389]

So when when one aboriginal tribe invaded and disposed of as many people from another tribe as possible that could not be considered an invasion? Ok Lol. These people really need to grow up.

[@daniellebcooper7160]

spot on. they were 'geno-ing' each other long before anyone else came here.

[@ZELJKO472]

They 'invaded' others and took over rival tribes. Aboriginals invaded themselves. Those protesters are naively ignorant. Never read a history book. I wonder what they think of the nuking of Hiroshima? Imagine being nuked? Yet Japan built a successful innovative country after being NUKED.

[@danieledmunds588]

And you were there and witnessed it all did you. DF

[@Psittacine-pp5yd]

That take brains so don't hold your breath

[@mickoz9389]

@@danieledmunds588 No. But just as the rest of history, it was well documented. But now hidden of course.

[@KruxSmash]

Those poor brainwashed kids.

[@veritygail]

It's child abuse. They should all be out at a park celebrating freedom. Not dragged there and indoctrinated with racist garbage. Almost as bad as Palestinia hate filled indoctrination of their offspring over the last 70 years.

[@CatsandJP]

Your brainwashed and sucked into the cause of condemning people because they have been exercising their right to protest.

[@Fred316-i1f]

@@CatsandJP were you saying the same for the covid lockdown protests or not?

[@CatsandJP]

@@Fred316-i1fNone of your business…what has that got to do to Australia Day..because I’ve moved on from covid…..next?

[@Fred316-i1f]

@@CatsandJP so you admit you thought covid lockdowns were wrong even though you also say people have the right to protest?? Classical, ps I know u shoved at least 4 in your arm, i can tell the gullible from a mile away

[@mattsmith8929]

Palestinian flag? 😂

[@los_rubos]

Solidarity with the indigenous people of this country numb nuts

[@CatsandJP]

Yeah…well there are always village idiots who try to take advantage.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

I saw some huge banners merely saying *TRUMP* at anti-vax rallies, I guess you can hoist any flag you want.

[@neilmcfarlane7013]

Oh yeah, keep an eye on how they will try and bring those things together and see them for what they are.

[@edmurks236]

Stolen land???

[@idkwhat123]

Stay focused and calm Australia 🇦🇺. Never be ashamed of your country. Other countries are with you ♥️ I'm from Suriname 🇸🇷.

[@Boobook663]

Appreciated

[@rickfromhove3324]

The guy on the mike happily enjoys the benefits of colonialism or does he live out bush off grid ?

[@CatsandJP]

Probably safer off grid.

[@neilmcfarlane7013]

A rap star😂

[@PhilipCunningham1788]

We voted NO

[@Gough-jf9zf]

There was a referendum on Australia Day? When? Not while I was alive.

[@PhilipCunningham1788]

@Gough-jf9zf No to treaties

[@kellyco4139]

But they ALL enjoy the public holiday with pay ? What a bunch of hypocrites

[@NoWindNoSunNoPower]

I doubt they have a job.

[@Psittacine-pp5yd]

@@NoWindNoSunNoPower 3rd generation Centrelink's

[@CatsandJP]

@@Psittacine-pp5ydYou need Specsavers..their are OAPs amongst them.

[@CatsandJP]

The OAPs supporting them don’t care about the public holidays…they’re retired ….you can borrow someone’s glass for a better look at the crowd.

[@CatsandJP]

@@Father-GrandfatherHaving trouble processing logic…but not surprising you feel the need for backlash.

[@lesliewatt9344]

Yeah change the date then they would want something else.

[@CatsandJP]

Why….that means changing history..and that can never be erased to appease people who don’t agree on the date.

[@MeredithBell-v3f]

25 million celebrated 🇦🇺

[@NRCZ5BRO7_]

So what has the issue in Palestine got to do with Australia Day. These are the people - labor wont admit it panders to. This the group - that despite being a small vocal minority - they are given more rights and power then the the majority of Australians. And if this group is a small proportion of labor voters - why do they get - more rights then anyone else. When in actual fact - they respect no-one else's opinions. And labor tries to restrict what anyone else thinks - for this group. Tells you most of them are the paid members of the local labor party branches.

[@blueberry3168]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🎯🎯🎯

[@CatsandJP]

Wake up..if any other political party was governing…people will still protest for a cause…because it is their right to do.

[@Wotwudino]

Well said, yep the only group that can call for violence and domestic terrorism and get away with it. Do they not realise that 99% of Australians don’t have the same hate in their hearts as they do for us? People on here saying everyone has the right to protest!? Yeah right, watch how quickly they’d shut down a protest that protests their sh$&t!!

[@Wotwudino]

Cowards reporting comments?

[@edmurks236]

@@CatsandJP Maybe not!

[@robkit6681]

Actually hundreds of protesters attended.....while millions of us celebrated AUSTRALIA DAY 🇦🇺

[@jc7671]

Treaty was defeated in October 2023. Accept the decision.

[@multioptioned]

Better tell the Victorian government! 😮

[@mammon8915]

Melbourne demonstrates against Australia day while the rest of Australia happily celebrates it.

[@workinclassman9424]

Conquered land is not stolen it is won, that is the way the world has worked forever

[@razerd7443]

And nearly all descended from those who have settled here since 1788.

[@richardsaunders3743]

A guy who was himself part-Aboriginal, had commented to the effect of Aboriginal causes activists having pigmentation issues!

[@Gough-jf9zf]

Nope, most Aussies today descended from later arrivals. I think the Bureau of Stats has good data on that.

[@multioptioned]

​@Gough-jf9zf Most current Australians would have no links to early settlers. Pretty obvious most Australians have Asian or sub continent heritage these days...😮

[@mattmacca3990]

Thousands of activists paid for by us workers…. Who have had about enough of supporting bludgers and no hopers… 🇦🇺

[@spzaruba5089]

Then leave Australia. If you have European history and you are mad about it, be gone.

[@PetraHewitt]

Yes. Yes. Yes. They may be so much happier in the now Muslim controlled UK.

[@markrandall7631]

I think it would be difficult to find any of 100% aboriginal bloodlines dating back pre European.

[@richardsaunders3743]

@@markrandall7631 Good point. Unless one has missed something. It is likely that full blood Aboriginals might now be counted on one hand.

[@andodrozdowski3832]

Australia Day always was always will be so suck it up

[@jimmyhendrix5325]

Australia is so vulnerable to an actual foreign invasion but this insanity cursing this beautiful country instead of blessing it could manifest just that .

[@Fred316-i1f]

hence why it happens, the people protesting hardly any of them are aboriginal, its all people who have fallen to propaganda to the commies in universities who push it out into the open

[@multioptioned]

Exactly. Every country has been invaded at some time, most by the British. Land only belongs to those for as long as they can defend it. Ask Ukraine and Syria...

[@judithdabrow9843]

All the usual suspects

[@SwampMyster]

Dole bludgers parade more like it..

[@DaveDwyer]

How lucky these people are that they can freely protest in the best country on earth! happy Australia Day!

[@mickd-x6i]

Lidia your father is Irish not even Australian

[@mickoz9389]

Lidia has a serious lack of mental capacity.

[@CatsandJP]

I’m not a fan of Lidia..but she does have the right to protect..like it or not.

[@AlexBamZ]

I find it so funny that these people are protesting about changing the date yet the fleet didn’t even land here on the 26th, they landed here on the 17th and the 26th is when the Union Jack flag was first hoisted.

[@danieledmunds588]

Think long and hard about what you wrote and maybe you will understand it. Jan 26 IS when a foreign flag WAS raised on the shores of this country by a FOREIGN officer, with a marine guard and WAS claimed for the king of a foreign country. No matter what colour your skin, by definition, that is INVASION! And you want to celebrate the day the country you were born in was invaded. Pathetic!

[@markrandall7631]

No moved to Port Jackson from Botany Bay 26 Jan hoisted flag 29 Jan. Aug is when Cook claimed Australia to Britain and nothing to do with the 26th.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

The fleet arrived in Botany Bay spread over 2-3 days, actually. And the protest was about the official announcement of occupying the continent, the 26th.

[@sabbey-]

And 20 years later, Major Johnston's Rum Corps chose the 26th January to march on Government House and arrest Governor Bligh for being a bloody nuisance. That was an Australia Day to remember that we've mostly forgotten. js

[@diannemorris8690]

Changing the date is just a step towards abolishing the day. It's the old Socialist "foot in the door" trick. Not fooled.

[@mini-z_me]

I suspect that those claiming it is stolen land have not purchased any land 😜

[@CatsandJP]

I suspect those living in public housing provided by the government which includes all ethnicities haven’t bought land either…what a goose you are.

[@PetraHewitt]

These protesters should give up their homes, money, jobs or dole, to one of the oppressed they are protesting for. Put your mouth where your money is. Go to Palestine and support them there. Leave the rest of us alone and in peace

[@Gough-jf9zf]

Second sentence....?????

[@Cobber2023]

Why are Palestinian Flags being flown on the streets of Melbourne Palestinians did not build this country they didn’t defend it in WW2 either 👍

[@Gough-jf9zf]

Why were *TRUMP* flags at anti-vax marches? Trump's last lot of tariffs hurt us and his next lot will, too.

[@isomorph7954]

The only thing being achieved here is to increase awareness amongst the majority that they have been too tolerant for too long.

[@YouShouldThink4Yourself]

@AlbieAughtie Leftist WOKE MORONS Screaming and shouting about How BAD we all are and hows hard done by they are.

[@Boobook663]

@AlbieAughtie Idiots

[@juegomaestro11]

They should leave or be charged with treason. Enough is enough.

[@CatsandJP]

You really need educating on what treason means…they are not storming the capital….injuring innocent police officers…pooping in desk draws…scattering paperwork everywhere. You need a reality check.

[@NoWindNoSunNoPower]

Plasticine flags. 😆🤣😂😂🤣😆 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@FactsorCapKing2024]

Melbourne is a joke of a city!? 😭😂

[@BronwynMurray-sc2xu]

These people need to grow up. We can't change history. We can embrace the future as one people. 237 years - we can't prosecute anyone who may have done the wrong thing we can't award damages to people who may have been dead for 200 years. Australia in 2025 is a democracy where your religion, race or sex are not an issue - Education is accessible to all and it's up to the individual as to how successful they are.

[@thearbiter4794]

Oh look, people that probably don't have a job.

[@Christine-cl8ey]

They do know that if it wasn't for the ones who helped fight for Australia back in WWII. There would no longer be an Australia please educate yourselves and also use lateral thinking

[@Gough-jf9zf]

What's one got to do with the other?

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@ Australia was only important during WW2 because it had white settlement. Why would the Japanese want a railway here? Or anything? There'd have been no crops to steal, no steelworks to use. More than that, how would they get in? No landing strips, no working ports. In fact, so many northern bays and beaches have hidden reefs, which wouldn't have been mapped. You've just supplied arguments why the indigenes would be better off without whites. Seriously? Australia being white settled won the war?

[@Christine-cl8ey]

@beardedtattooedmetalhead thank you

[@Christine-cl8ey]

@beardedtattooedmetalhead well said

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@beardedtattooedmetalhead Wish I could get away with a post that long without being deleted! But then I'm not following the right narrative. You seem to believe a litany of historical events proves an opinion. And you just pulled the "you're pulling the race card". It's just as low and just as inapt. I _responded_ to the 1st and 3rd posts. You should read them before commenting. You even pretend I said stuff I didn't so you can force your opinions in. Carriers & zeroes used to locate & map reefs? Wow. Your argument is totally skewed. Fact, the Japanese didn't successfully invade Australia. They only bombed Darwin, Broome, etc _because_ white infrastructure was here. Japan needed more aircraft carriers. I doubt they'd waste one mapping Aussie reefs. Landing craft on still unknown coasts? Unlikely.

[@KellyLithgow-t3i]

Take benefits see how they appreciate that Australia is beautiful country for all 🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@mickd-x6i]

We took their land fck there benefits don't take spears to a gun fight

[@mezza2920]

I was thinking the exact thing 😂

[@NS-ms5eg]

It would be funny if every year, the numbers attending these rallies decreased! 😂

[@Cobber2023]

They think that Captain Cook invaded with a massive naval fleet 🤦‍♂️

[@richardsaunders3743]

HM Bark Endeavour was under the command of Lt James Cook RN, and although she had armament(cannon et al), she was not a man-of-war vessel as such. Moreover, she made landfall at Botany Bay, on April 29, 1770. As for the First Fleet, not all the vessels were warships (of any sort). The only military personnel were of a Royal Marines detachment.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

"They" think? All of them? How do you know?

[@AACC-n7c]

The solution is for Australia to be a republic with a new beginning and a new date to celebrate call Republic Day where everyone who calls this great country home can come together whether they are black white brown yellow green etc

[@YouShouldThink4Yourself]

No good. Then all these IDIOTS would have nothing to protest about ... But they would find something.

[@TheWatcher-1960]

This is my thought too. I don't know why the hell we still need the connection to Britain. At the referendum on a republic in 1999 the majority wanted to remain under the British crown. WHY??? I fail to see any reason in this modern age. However even if this were to come about I feel the activists would still find something to protest about. They'll never be happy no matter what changes are made.

[@VHKDK]

Not enough money being thrown at you?

[@CatsandJP]

You need Specsavers..not everyone protesting is indigenous.

[@Fred316-i1f]

@@CatsandJP we know 99% of them are self loathing white women and beta males

[@markrandall7631]

@@CatsandJP how can you tell? from Thorpe?

[@ZELJKO472]

Tomorrow they will protest about the next thing. Useless exercise unless they walk the talk and hand it all back.

[@Fred316-i1f]

@ yep they either go back to where they come from or as you say its all bs

[@mickoz9389]

The spear was not just created for hunting roos.

[@ZELJKO472]

I can tell you many practices still performed in remote communities,sorcery, curses, extreme retribution dished out, severe reprisals and regular ongoing violence due to ancient beliefs. But of course that is diversity but anything done by others is racist and colonial harm

[@Birds_and_art]

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/44928533

[@richardsaunders3743]

Aborigines had spears for hunting, fishing, and for combat.

[@patrickwakefield2297]

i wonder how many of these loonies actually know any thing about aboriginal culture and the way they lived before settlement by the british.

[@marki2325]

If no media showed up they wouldn’t have much to say as nobody is listening

[@DL-zl5tn]

How about you just ignore them but rather focus on those who celebrate the positive?

[@hoosierdaddy8002]

MAGA. Make Australia Great Again.

[@ricky6864]

Defund them from centerlink and the public holidays. Obviously they are not part of our Australia

[@Gough-jf9zf]

ricky, do you think CentreLink pays extra for public holidays?

[@ricky6864]

@Gough-jf9zf i doubt all would be on centerlink. But you seem to know

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@ I know you'd be in deep doo-doo if CentreLink audited you.

[@ricky6864]

@@Gough-jf9zf unfortunately I have my own business and pay for people like you

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@@ricky6864 ricky, why say stuff like that? Nobody's gunna believe you. They read five of your posts, they know running a bath is beyond you. Let alone a business.

[@bruhverlybruh4012]

Somebody killed Somebody over every inch of the earth except, maybe, the arctic circles.

[@YouShouldThink4Yourself]

And Conquerors don't pay rent.👍

[@mickoz9389]

ALWAYS was always will be .... land for the taking

[@BoomerRam62]

Very Un-Australian one would say.

[@robertfleming2654]

Just had a look and the gathering most would be on benefits and the others could be terrerist who knows or just a nuisance.

[@caseyandrews7]

funded by WEF

[@John-wl3hu]

I’m guessing not 1 of them was arrested

[@Arthurbracegirdleesq]

I blame the boat people

[@Jack-c2d8w]

Who the hell ARE these powerless people?? They're angry people like Just Stop Oil and the Alphabet Squad

[@CatsandJP]

The way you’ve worded you comment sounds angry too…what the “hell”

[@Jack-c2d8w]

@CatsandJP Hahaha you're an alphabet person aren't you with hurty feelings? Awww bless you. I was writing the comment as megaphone girl was crying about being powerful. They've no power at all.

[@CatsandJP]

@Jack-c2d8wNo…. I’m a common sense person who can see the precious people sucked into the latest fad or trend that try to hold others to their questionable standards.

[@daniellebcooper7160]

maybe 4% make up the indig population, and out of that there would be some who support australia day. So if 69% of australia support australia day, it leaves just 27% who shouldent be living here.

[@Prognosis__]

I have been to many events that were celebrating Australia Day and there was aboriginals attending and being entertained. Same with Muslims and Asians

[@Design_no]

How interesting that Pal flags were there. Says it all.

[@balung]

Trump has some real estate development ideas for Gaza, that doesn't involve the Palestinians.😊

[@Boobook663]

@@balung Go Trumpy!

[@Gough-jf9zf]

But aren't you in WA?

[@paulbata9649]

zombie horde

[@Chris_Cross]

Imagine saying "dismantle the police" while your protest is actively being protected by the police... the idiocy.

[@RSmerlinRS]

Just realized if you google 'when did the first fleet arrive in australia' the AI GENERATED ANSWER SAYS Jan 26th.. scroll down to the first REAL result and BOOM 18th January 1788.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

Most people know they arrived before the 26th. Should I say "BOOM"? The entire fleet did not arrive on the 18th. They arrived over a few days _from_ the 18th. Is that a "BOOM"? The 26th was made official because that's when the land was proclaimed. Please explain the "BOOM".

[@RSmerlinRS]

@@Gough-jf9zf boom = people taking AI generated results from google as fact is dumb

[@scwps23]

Their protests are similar to the Columbus Day protest in America.

[@JD-jz8vl]

Culturally appropriate action is to celebrate SURVIVAL DAY! These proffessional protesters at hate rallies are booring ...

[@ZELJKO472]

Those protesting, most would be involved in organisations. Called Aboriginal Corporation employing heaps of people with unlimited funds.

[@Peter-p5u8t]

Get this rent-a-crowd back to work or at uni, and if they truly believe what they're preaching, live in the middle east where the conflict is and help there😂

[@polarbear7255]

Thousands? So, exactly no one then. Out of a population of 28 million…. But they have a right to peacefully protest.

[@area51isreal71]

There is a solution for these people that who don't like Australia Day. It's called an airport.

[@ulrikezachmann7596]

Australia Day is what you make it. Why they hold a rally on such a hot day in the city is madness itself. Celebrate or don’t celebrate. Do your own thing and have a nice day. The choice is yours.

[@CatsandJP]

They probably see it as dedication to the cause..and have every right too.

[@alistair4937]

I stopped being interested at 'Melbourne".

[@tenacious1963]

Every day is Australia Day 🇦🇺. ❤

[@davidhastings7714]

A miniscule percent of Australians demonstrated and made hollow threats and associating aboriginals with terrorists while the rest of us celebrate our great country.

[@bitmeight8338]

Theres no such day fantasy like the ALP

[@user-249-u1m]

Australia always was, and always will be, free. The only ones claiming that Australia is not free are those who wish to abandon the common law, when it is the common law that is of common interest to the people of this nation, rather than aboriginal culture, which is exclusive, rather than bipartisan.

[@frkzoid]

Most Australians don't really care and most migrants working for the double pay

[@brettcoles5262]

They could do this any work day as well as no workers here.

[@PaulJames-b6i]

I live in Darwin, but like albo this so call mob, care, but I never see you here. Where the real problems are, Im Aboriginal, and i can't stand this mob, sit down money us mob up call it, or the gimmie, gimmie tribe,

[@SquidMax-ym6gv]

I took my covid jabs and then drove hubby and I to this.

[@IanG-co6cm]

Strange how those who support Aboriginal land rights, support Arab colonialism in Palestine. I guess one thing they have in common is they both like to re-write history.

[@croonyerzoonyer]

These people are ruining a nice day off in the city for Melburnians.

[@webmasterguru7799]

LEAVE EFF OFF

[@EverythingHasAStory]

Many Palest like to go and live in Australia. They should be allowed. Australia will become a more exciting country because of more diversity.

[@paulveenings6861]

They can all come and live at your place.

[@phishENchimps]

Public school teachers allowed for these children to grow up with these ideas

[@mmccbb7mcb278]

Undoubtedly Labour Party voters lol. Or Greens. Just thought I would add some diversity here,lol.

[@wholiddleolme476]

I can understand aboriginal people taking part, but when white people take part wouldn't those people be better supporting the cause if they left Australia?

[@dagwould]

I can't understand the 'left' protesting Australia Day. If ticks all the boxes of the their playbook: 1. Diversity is our strength. The British brought the rich diversity of their multi-stranded culture to the Aboriginal world, along with flour and tea, so some nice new cuisine as well. 2. The welcome that many Aborigines gave to the immigrants clearly showed their multiculturalism and open borders policy: sure, anyone can come and have their own culture here. Plenty of room for all. Of course, some Aborigines were xenophobes and anglophobes, but that was because they suffered with a phobic personality flaw (lived experience of having no melanin-deficient types around). This was overcome over time with the guidance of the more liberally minded of their clans. 3. The Brits were OK to use their own customs and laws too, because all cultures are equal. The Aborigines knew this and had no objection. 3. The Brits did bring gifts: fencing, wheels, rum. All good stuff. So, I don't know what the gormless twits were on about. The British immigration was exactly what they extol as standard practice in their borderless world.

[@user-249-u1m]

We are not going anywhere. We were born here the same as the natives. Thus, we are native to this land also. We honor this land by upholding each person's right to equal justice under the law, which is not owing to the natives who have been liberated under a democracy. The purpose of colonization is to establish a nation under a democracy so that each person should have representation before the law, which is inalienable. We do not honor the dead in spite of the living. Those who believe they can preside into the future without first acknowledging the right of others to an equality shall be overtaken in their indignation. The constitution of Australia is more Australian than the boomerang, because the constitution is the product of the people that we should be protected under the law by the law, rather than by an indigenous weapon of any kind that failed to stop the progress of humanity into a universal system of law based on human rights and equality. We are human beings who perceive injustices by our conscience. Each person has been endowed with conscience by their Creator and shall conform to an equality by the rights of conscience and liberty. Any nation that will not conform to a democracy in accordance with the 1948 UDHR international peace agreement shall be abolished and reinstituted under the lawful pretense that the people's right to representation before the law is inalienable. UDHR Article 1 All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. UDHR Article 21 The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage.

[@Lazydaisy646]

Why are all these people still in Australia if thats how they feel?

[@BruceRidgway]

I have celebrated Australia Day and proud of it !! I dont have to say sorry for anything i look forward to the future NOT THE PAST !! All these dead heads can't move on so life won't change for them !!

[@diannemorris8690]

If they don't like living here, many other countries to go to.

[@UltraPerception]

Every day is fuckin australia day. In aussie. Feels like its every day the topic never changes

[@SamuelHunt-g1t]

Why are the Stephenovics and Gilberts left wing ,is it ideology or an allegiance for a Labor government letting their families into the country maybe

[@leemace9638]

I know those Chinese cars are coming in by the thousands 😂😂😂

[@WHI73LION]

Most of these people haven’t left the third world they came from and unfortunately not many of them work either. Maybe they need to calm down and have a sleep.

[@70chevs]

And millions didn't, majority wins.

[@sunshinesagelavenderrosemary]

palestine is not a commonwealth country

[@positivepawpaw7564]

I absolutely disagree with these useful ijits but I will defend their right to protest.

[@ZELJKO472]

😆 And that will do a lot of good. Wonder what the next protest chapters will be? Protest, a counter protest, a protest about a protest....

[@Prognosis__]

I will protest when there is something important to protest about. When our freedom to choose is threatened by government for instance

[@ZELJKO472]

I wonder what they think of the Japanese? They were nuked in 45 and they don't protest, march, look for more victims etc. They created a thriving successful country. Here people protest about crap, a daily protest about everything from a to z.

[@B3tt3rLif3]

Well, if they want to waste their time, its up to them. They are often the "useful idiots" and i bet they have no idea what they are even protesting about. Maybe they should first assess their own contribution to Australian society. As for me, I celebrate our country. ❤🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@boycotttrends3918]

I think these crowd identify themselves as a primitive tribe.