What Does the Anniversary of Australia Means to the...

For many January 26th is a day to celebrate Australia and the country it is today but the date is not marked for celebrations for all Australians. For many Aboriginal Australians January the 26th is referred to as ‘survival day’, ‘invasion day’ or the ‘day of mourning ‘it marks the day when the white settlers landed on Australian shores and devastated the lives of the indigenous people who had lived there for thousands of years. The aborigines say â€Å"for us it is a day of mourning. This day we lost our land, we lost our spirit culture and we lost our language.† January 26 1938 marked the 150th anniversary for the white Australians to reflect on the progress Australia has made in the last 150 years. That anniversary was a time and†¦show more content†¦Without work and a steady income many people lost their homes and were forced to live in makeshift dwellings with poor heating and sanitation†. â€Å"People were forced into all sorts of tricks and expediencies to survive, all sorts of shabby and humiliating compromises. In thousands and thousands of homes fathers deserted the family and went on the track (became itinerant workers), or perhaps took to drink. Grown sons sat in the kitchen day after day, playing cards, studying the horses [betting on horse racing] and trying to scrounge enough for a threepenny bet, or engaged in petty crime, mothers cohabited with male boarders who were in work and who might support the family, daughters attempted some amateur prostitution and children were in trouble with the police†. Primary source: Lowenstein, Wendy. 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