4: Rights and freedoms

4.3

Australia Day —
celebration or mourning?
Student: Showaib Sarwary Class: 10 Due date: 20.2.19

The First Fleet arrived at Port Jackson on 26 January 1788. This day has been, and still is, remembered in many ways
and called many things.

1 What message do you think each of the following names gives and from whose point of view (POV) do you
think the name originates?

POV
I: Indigenous
Name Message E: European

A national public holiday in Australia,

Anniversary Day commemorating the founding on 26 January 1788 of
the colony of New South Wales. Indigenous

Foundation Day is a designated date on which

celebrations mark the founding of a nation, state or
a creation of a military unit. This day is for countries
that came into existence without the necessity of
Foundation Day
gaining independence. Older countries that use European
some other event of special significance as their
national day.

The Australian Natives' Association was a mutual

society founded in Melbourne, Australia in April
1871 as the Victorian Natives' Association. Its
ANA* Day
membership was restricted to white men born in
Australia. Indigenous
Australia Day is the official national day of Australia.
Celebrated annually on 26 January, it marks the
anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of
Invasion Day British ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales, and
the raising of the Flag of Great Britain at Sydney Indigenous
Cove by Governor Arthur Phillip.

Australia Day is the official national day of Australia.

Survival Day Celebrated annually on 26 January, it marks the
anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of
British ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales, and Indigenous

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 the raising of the Flag of Great Britain at Sydney
Cove by Governor Arthur Phillip.

The tradition of having Australia Day as a national

Australia Day holiday on 26 January is a recent one. Not
(official name
until 1935 did all the Australian states and territories
since 1935)
use the name 'Australia Day' to mark 26 January. European
*
ANA = Australian Natives Association (natives meaning the first European generations born in Australia)

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2 a Describe the Day of Mourning protest.

A day which the Australian’s protest agency the British and also the protest is held in 1938 26th of January.
British celebrate there 150th year anniversary of colonisation of Australia.

b What did the protest achieve?

The Aboriginal’s are demonstrating and expressing their feeling towards different race. Aboriginal’s protest and
demon straight and also it’s the day that the first national gathering.

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