Australia Day 2021 on your ABC
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Tune into the ABC for a smorgasbord of events to mark Australia Day.
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January 26, 2021 is a time to
reflect on our history,
celebrate our nation, its achievements and its people.
See details of the complete coverage here.
Australian of the Year Awards
7:30pm (AEDT) on
January 25.
Hamish Macdonald and Susie Youssef will host the ceremony, which will include special performances by Christine Anu.
The awards will be broadcast on ABC TV + iview, ABC Local Radio and the ABC News channel (Ch 24).
They will also be streamed on Facebook accounts ABC Australia and the ABC account in your capital city (e.g. ABC Sydney) as well as ABC Australia YouTube.
Black lives matter, and this always was and always will be Aboriginal lands.
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The 26th of January is almost upon us and for Aboriginal peoples, Invasion Day is not a day of celebration, but a day of mourning and commemoration of survival.
2021 marks 251 years since James Cook landed on the lands of the Eora peoples, and the Europeans’ colonisation and attempted genocide of Aboriginal peoples began. Whether you’re a settler or First Nations, the 26th of January is a day to stand in solidarity and in mourning with the Aboriginal peoples whose stolen lands we all live on. It is a day to learn, to survive, to stand up, and most importantly, to listen.
Published January 20, 2021
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For non-Indigenous Australians, January 26 has in recent years been celebrated as ‘Australia Day’; for Indigenous Australians, it’s Invasion Day – a day of mourning and protests. The date, which marks the arrival of the First Fleet, has become a day of mourning for what those tall ships from England brought with them death, suffering, and the beginning of what’s now over two centuries of injustice and dispossession to First Nations people.