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Invasion Day protests mark National Holiday in Australia


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Australia’s national holiday, 26 January, is Invasion Day. It commemorates the start of the British invasion in 1788 and the dispossession and genocide of that land’s First Nations peoples. Aboriginal people have resisted this from the beginning and their resistance continues today. For many decades, Aboriginal people were forced to labour or had their wages stolen. Under the theme of ‘Abolish Australia Day’, demonstrations calling for a stop to the ongoing exploitation, repression and injustice that First Nations peoples and communities still endure occurred all around Australia. APC spoke to Tarneen Onus-Williams from the Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance (WAR) about these events.Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia
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