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We don't actually know whose land this is anymore. "Guringgai" is the ethnology that's recorded, but by the time anyone put it down on paper, the locals were long since dead or slaughtered.
Nevertheless, this land was never ceded, it was never sold. It remains Aboriginal land.
I do miss the BBQ parties on the 26th, though. It's a national public holiday so everyone's off, it's late in the summer right before school goes back, a great chance to unwind, catch up, sit down, relax with friends.
And yes, I still wish they'd change the date, or have a national ceremony of acknowledgement/mourning as we do on ANZAC Day. Sadly, neither seems likely in the atmosphere of "we personally have done nothing wrong" that permeates white Australian society regarding treatment of indigenous peoples, past and present.
Nevertheless, this land was never ceded, it was never sold. It remains Aboriginal land.
I do miss the BBQ parties on the 26th, though. It's a national public holiday so everyone's off, it's late in the summer right before school goes back, a great chance to unwind, catch up, sit down, relax with friends.
And yes, I still wish they'd change the date, or have a national ceremony of acknowledgement/mourning as we do on ANZAC Day. Sadly, neither seems likely in the atmosphere of "we personally have done nothing wrong" that permeates white Australian society regarding treatment of indigenous peoples, past and present.