Invasion Day Rally in Perth, Australia

Australia Day (26 Jan) is not a celebration for all Australians. Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples mark this day as Invasion Day. On January 26, 1788 the First Fleet arrived at Port Jackson, and Arthur Phillip raised the Union Jack on the land of the Eora nation. This was an invasion that had catastrophic and tragic consequences for all the peoples and nations who had lived here for tens of thousands of years, and for their descendants.