Happy invasion day.

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You leave the date as is.

Simply change the narrative about how its commemorated.

If this day is so emotive to our indigenous brothers and sisters then lets work with that and make it a day of remembrance too.

Look at ANZAC Day, you could mount a far stronger case the 25th of April is a far more emotional day to far more Australians.

But we embrace the date, as devastating as it was, pay our respects, then at noon, celebrate the lives of those lost.

I believe, and I could be wrong here that something closer to Anzac Day is what is required.

If my memory serves me, this is primary school stuff. The first fleet didn’t land where they were meant to and ended up in a race with another fleet from another nation to get ashore and claim the land.

That’s what the 26th was about. I do not recall if there was any contact with natives on this day. The intention was to beat the other country not start a war with the natives.

I’m sure the British must have settled other lands. Does anyone know if attempted genocide occurred there?

I keep deferring to what I believe to be the facts that in this date no conflict occurred and as such on that day the future was not scripted one way or the other.

Now we are heading towards facts, not symbolism not sentimentally but what actually did happen or I guess more importantly what do indigenous people believe happened.

Let’s put it this way.

First fleet come on land, find the first native they see and execute him or her to set an example.

If this occurred on this date, there isn’t an Australian alive now looking to celebrate that occasion. It happened or not as was events and treatments of the day back then, but we would never celebrate such an act.

You have activists that claim genocide started on this date and that’s their motive for a change.